PHI332 : The
Class : Argument
ID : Independent Premises : Exercise 2.4.2
Exercise 2.4.2
If any of the following are arguments, diagram them. Begin by marking inference
(premise or conclusion) indicators as before. Then check your work with my answers
on the next page.
- Now, how might one deal with this standoff? The standard approach is to
try to show how the moral principles of one's opponent lose their plausibility
under analysis. It is easy to see how this is possible (p. 352).
- There are three reasons why abortion is wrong: Life is present from the
moment of conception; fetuses look like babies; and fetuses possess a genetic
code that is both necessary and sufficient for being human (p. 352).
- It is always wrong to take human life. So, since life is present from the
moment of conception, abortion is always wrong (p. 353).
- It is a moral perspective very different from the abstract, competitive,
isolated, and principled rigidity so characteristic of patriarchy (p. 368).
- As embryology and fetology advance, it becomes clear that human development
is a continuum (p. 368).
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Once you have completed this excercise you should:
Go on to Exercise 2.4.3
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