argument validity

argument validity

CheckPoint 1: Argument Validity


2. The annual rainfall in California’s north valley averages twenty-three
inches. So the rainfall next year will be twenty-three inches. - Possibly true or possible false. With the change in climate one could not guarantee that the rainfall from one year to the next would be exactly the same. There could be a drought next year or flood level rainfall.


3. You expect to get forty miles to the gallon in that? Why, that old wreck
has a monster V8; besides, it’s fifty years old and needs an overhaul. - This is probably true. No V8 vehicle I know of can get forty miles to the gallon. Most know that if an engine is not running its best the gas mileage goes down as well.



4. In three of the last four presidential races, the winner of the Iowa Republican
primary has not captured the Republican nomination. Therefore,
the winner of the next Iowa Republican primary will not capture the
Republican nomination. - possibly true or possibly false. The next candidate may do much better in the eyes of the Republican Party therefore; winning the Republican nomination.



6. The number of cellular telephones has increased dramatically in each of
the past few years. Therefore there will be even more of them in use this
coming year. - Probably true. With the cost of cellular phones going down and the amount of time and effort that has been put forth from cell phone companies to improve coverage areas this may well turn out to be true. Plus, each year more and more parents are providing their children with cell phone so that they can keep in touch.


7. Since the graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and other Ivy League
schools generally score higher on the Graduate Record Examination than
students from Central State, it follows that the Ivy League schools do
more toward educating their students than Central State does. - probably true. Ivy League schools do tend to provide a better education but there may also be...