Reference no: EM133715045
The following passage contains a complex argument:
There is no way to tell whether awareness continues after death, so we can only conclude that it does not. But we are nothing more than awareness, since without awareness we experience nothing, not even utter darkness. Thus we do not survive death. Any moral system based on the certainty of reward or punishment in an afterlife is therefore fundamentally mistaken. (John Nolt, Schaum's Outlines: Logic, 40)
(a) Make a numbered list of claims involved in the argument. (Write each claim out as a complete sentence.)
(b) Say which claims support which (using the numbers you assigned in part a).
(c) Schematize the argument (using the numbers you assigned in part a).
(d) Evaluate each inference step (simple argument) within the complex argument by saying whether it is valid deductive, strong inductive, or weak.
(e) Evaluate the entire complex argument, based on your evaluations in part d.