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Question 1: What is a valid argument? What is a logical truth? Can a valid argument have a false conclusion? Can a logical truth be false? Give an example of a sentence that is a logical truth according to Frege but not according to Aristotle.
Question 2: Under what conditions are the following expressions true? (P -> Q) (P => Q) (P -> Q) Now write (P => Q) in terms of and ->, and write P in terms of ->.
Question 3: What are analyticity, a priority and necessity? How might one argue that 'water is H20' expresses a necessary truth that is neither analytic nor a priori? How might one challenge the signi?cance of this argument?
Question 4: What is dualism? What is the modal argument for dualism? Articulate one criticism of this argument and indicate how a dualist might respond.
Question 5: What is the Gettier problem? Give your own Gettier case. What condition could be added to the justi?ed true belief analysis of knowledge to block it? Would it block all Gettier cases?
Question 6: What is Cartesian skepticism? What is Moore's "simple-minded" response to skepticism? What can be said in its defense?
Question 7: Formulate Quine's argument against the analytic/ synthetic distinction in your own words. What precisely is its conclusion? Does it follow?
Question 8: What is Goodman's New Riddle of Induction? What does it show? What condition might one impose on predicates to make them projectable?
Question 9: How is moral disagreement, as opposed to other kinds of disagreement, supposed to be evidence for moral anti-realism? How might a realist challenge this supposition?