Read the definitions below and select the best match between the numbered sentences and the definitions. Premise: A proposition from which another statement is inferred or follows a conclusion. Assumption: Something, which is accepted as true. Facts: Something, which can be checked. Reason: A cause, explanation or justification for an action or event. Conclusion: An end, finish or summarization of process or argument. Proposition: A statement that expresses judgment or opinion. Question: A sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit opinion. Inductive inference: An end, finish or summarization reached for “the whole”, based on “a particular” real incidence. Deductive Inference: An end, finish or summarization reached based on the combining and recombining two or more than two assumptions. Consider a soldier at the front, waiting with his comrades to repulse an enemy attack (1). It may occur to him that if the defense is likely to be successful, then it isnt very probable that his own personal contribution will be essential (2). But if he stays, he runs the risk of being killed or wounded—apparently for no point (3). On the other hand, if the enemy is going to win the battle, then his chances of death or injury are higher still, and now quite clearly to no point, since the line will be overwhelmed anyway (4). Based on this reasoning, it would appear that the soldier is better off running away regardless of who is going to win the battle (5). Of course, if all of the soldiers reason this way—as they all apparently should, since theyre all in identical situations—then this will certainly bring about the outcome in which the battle is lost (6). Does this give them a reason for staying at their posts (7)? OPTIONS 1) 1–Fact, 2–Inductive Inference, 3–Reason, 7–Question 2) 1–Assumption, 2–Proposition, 4–Deductive Inference, 7–Question 3) 1–Fact, 2-Proposition, 4–Conclusion, 6–Reason 4) 1-Premise, 3-Deductive Inference, 4–Reason, 6–Inductive Inference 5) 3–Proposition, 4–Reason, 5–Fact, 6-Proposition
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