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Quiz #1: Inductive Argument—The Scientific Method
 * Due No Later than Saturday 4/10 at midnight**. Send it to me as an e-mail attachment to rmeredith3@q.cm. After the deadline, you will not receive full credit.

Do Exercise 3 on page 175 of __The Vocabulary of Critical Thinking__. Use the following form to schematize the argument:

MP1 [Statement] MP2 [Statement] __// * Additional Premises if needed //__ Conclusion [Statement]

The schematization is all that you need to send me.

Suggestions about how to answer the question: Start with a statement of Redi’s conclusion—remember that his conclusion is his hypothesis so be specific.

Once you have written his conclusion, write down all the evidence/data from his experiment and decide which are the main premises. There should be at least 2.

Pay attention to the following concepts in your schematization: · Necessary condition · Sufficient Condition · Hypothesis · Statement · Controlled Experiment · Variables

this file is a handout detailing the main steps of the Scientific Method which we covered on Thursday.