In this exercise, you have to look for hidden premises and complex arguments. As

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In this exercise, you have to look for hidden premises and complex arguments. As your text notes, “A hidden premise is a premise that is implied, but not stated.” A complex argument is one that cannot “be expressed in two premises and one conclusion,” and it is one “involving a network of premises and conclusions.” Your job in this exercise is to find the hidden premise in five of the arguments listed below: 1. Having great wealth is a worthy goal because it is difficult to attain and many famous people have pursued it. 2. Low grades on a college transcript are a handicap in the job market, so teachers who grade harshly are doing students a disservice. 3. The Bible can’t be relevant to today’s problems; it was written many centuries ago and is filled with archaic phrasing. 4. It is dishonest to pretend to have knowledge one does not have, so plagiarism is more virtue than vice. 5. The credit card habit promotes careless spending, particularly among young people. Therefore, credit card companies should not be permitted to issue credit cards to anyone under age 21.

Explanation / Answer

1. here the hidden premises is that you are the owner to the total wealth and you deserve only it. you may strugle alot but now you are the owner, you must protect your wealth.

2. the need of a doctor is to the person who is sick, similarly the need of a teacher is to the student who is weak in studies. it is the responsibility of teacher to help those kind of students and make them good students with good grades.

3. the kind of problems we are facing may be different, but they are similar. irrespective of generations, there are some common things. they are; a truth is always truth only, a lie never becomes a truth if the time passes on.

4. plagirism is not acceptable, are ready to take food from the plate of your friend who is taking food his plate, in this you must take food from his plate. plagiarism is like the same thing.

5. the people who do not have self control, they may do such kind of things only irrespective of their reality. it is one good alternative where problem can be resolved upto some extent.

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