Small Quiz Reviews

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Reviews of the weekly Small Quizzes…

Below are the basic elements in a good answer.  Use these reviews to make corrections/clarifications to your reading questions answers. This will help with your Big Quizzes.

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Small Quiz #1:
1. Our grades are based on accumulating points in a simple 100 points scale (it is not a percentage; it’s way friendlier than that, because there are more than 100 points possible). For example, if you accumulate 80 points by the end of the semester, you’ll get a “B” in the class.
2. The best prep for the weekly, Small Quizzes is answering the weekly “Questions”.
3. Missed Big Quizzes cannot be made up, but the missed points will be automatically added to the points possible on your Final Exam, so you can make up those points then.
4. Any truth claim, including those about science and religion, is true if it agrees with reality, period. (Agreement with reality is the only thing that makes it true…your belief, its popularity, and even how much “proof” there seems to be have no effect on its truth.)

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Small Quiz #2
1. Padding is the content we leave out of our paraphrase. Padding includes things like dispensable detail, background, setting, restatements, tangents, etc.
2. The main goals of our paraphrases in this class are to give our audience a clear and accurate prejudice about the piece. We need to empathize with the author’s intent, mood, and voice and the audience’s GUS.
3. Paraphrasing is NOT about attracting readers, critiquing the piece, nor editorializing “about” the author or claims. The worst thing we can do is mislead the audience about the piece.
4. An “argument” in logic means providing support (premises) for your claim (conclusion).

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Small Quiz #3
1. The goal of induction is to increase the likelihood of the conclusion. Typically, in induction, the more truthful and relevant evidence you have the more likely the conclusion becomes.
2. The goal of a deductive argument is to arrive at a certain conclusion, a proof. Deduction relies on precise structure and wording.
3. Inductive “strength” is a measure of how likely the conclusion is based on the evidence provided.
4. A premise only helps your argument if it is both relevant and true.

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Small Quiz #4
1. A fallacy uses emotions or other distractions instead of relevant reasons to support the conclusion. The key to it being a fallacy is not the emotion but the lack of relevance.
2. An ad hominem attacks the opponent as a person instead of their reasoning or position.
3. It’s possible, but stupid arguments come in many forms and use many fallacies or simply false claims. An appeal to ignorance is a specific style of argument that uses a lack of evidence as if it should count as evidence. For example, “No one has proven that Covid isn’t a government conspiracy, so it must be.”
4. A red herring distracts from the argument by supporting a different claim than the conclusion.

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