Quiz 1
Because there are disagreements among cultures about right and wrong, there must not be any universal standards of right and wrong.
False
The validity or invalidity of an argument is a matter of its form as well as its content.
False
There is no simple way to test the truth of moral premises.
False
Deductive arguments are supposed to offer only probable support for their conclusions.
False (need logically conclusive support)
The argument for cultural relativism shows that the doctrine is both true and relevant.
False (not a stable doctrine)
Subjective relativism implies that some moral truths are true for everyone.
False (only for the individual)
A nonmoral statement is a statement affirming that an action is right or wrong or that a person (or one's motive or character) is good or bad.
False (this is a moral statement)
Appeal to the person is the fallacy of misrepresenting someone's claim or argument so it can be more easily refuted
False (this is the straw man fallacy)
A moral agent is a person who has the ability to discern right from wrong and to be held accountable for his or her own actions.
True
A valid argument with true premises is said to be sound.
True
An argument is a group of statements in which one of them is supposed to be supported by the rest.
True
Argument diagramming is a tool that can help you recognize the basic structure of an argument.
True
Begging the question is the fallacy of arguing in a circle-trying to use a claim as both a premise and the conclusion in an argument.
True
Cultural relativism is the view that an action is morally right if one's culture approves of it.
True
Emotivism implies that there is no such thing as goodness or badness.
True
Moral objectivism is the doctrine that some moral norms or principles are universal.
True
People can differ in their moral judgments, not just because they accept different moral principles, but also because they have divergent nonmoral beliefs.
True
Subjective relativism implies that, in the rendering of any moral opinion, each person is morally infallible.
True
The most reliable way to identify arguments is to always look for the conclusion first.
True
The argument for cultural relativism is logically valid.
True (we still have to question the truth of the premises)
