[lit-ideas] Re: The Meaning of Life: Isn't there a wikipedia article on that?
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:05:28 -0230
Contest! (We still do that, don't we?) Come up with a test question equally as
muddled in construct validity as the one Julies' daughter's teacher gave. Here
is my offering.
Ahem ....
This is a closed-book test. Laptops are permitted. Answer all questions. Point
values may not be as indicated. You must write in full sentences although
note-form answers will be read. You have 2 hours, perhaps less. (Remember that
the instructor drinks scotch.)
Given the 2 statements below, identify which is the premise and which is the
conclusion. Identify any missing premises necessary for the soundness of the
argument or identify any conclusion that follows soundly from these
statements.(10 pts)
1. Philosophy is a required course in the Primary/Elementary program and the
Intermediate/Secondary programme in the faculty of Education at my university.
2. Susan is not a graduate of either of our programmes.
* Upon completion, review your answers to the above 3 questions for cogency and
comprehensiveness.
Walter O.
Chair,
Department of Foundations
Minsk School of Teacher Training and Education
Quoting Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>:
> It is time. Each of these statements must be labeled with either A:
> Observation, B: Inference, or C: Opinion.
>
> 1. The plant is not important to the students in this classroom.
>
> 2. Carol looked tired.
>
> 3. I bet it takes you a long time to get to your classes.
>
> 4. I was on roller blades when I fell and broke my leg.
>
> 5. I really like the way the flowers smell. (This is, in my most humble
> opinion different from a sentence stating "the flowers smell good".)
>
> 6. Frogs croak to talk to each other in a pond.
>
> 7. The girl looked sad as she walked home from school.
>
> 8. I have a headache. The odor gave me a headache.
>
> 9. The music hurt my ears.
>
> 10. The umpire looked mad.
>
> Would you pass? Are you smarter than an eighth grader?
>
> Julie Krueger
> eagerly awaiting results
>
> On 10/10/07, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > --- Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > (Still going to send the list my daughter's recent science test on
> > > opinion
> > > > vs. observation vs. inference and see how many of you answer the 10
> > > > questions "correctly".)
> > >
> > > Bring it on
> > >
> > > Donal
> > > DeptOfPopper
> > > ObsessiveCompulsive&TrivialCollege
> > > UniversityOfAnywhere
> > > O shit
> > > Yeh,there is no hard and fast distinction between these
> > > So,on second thoughts,don't bother
> >
> >
> > I was being playful.
> >
> > What is perhaps true is that the distinctions between
> > opinion/observation/inference are highly problemmatic within a trad. arr.
> > empiricism {a la Berk., Hume, Locke} - perhaps much more so than outside
> > these schools of thought.
> > [Bearing in mind that in these schools our opinions and even inference
> > must
> > be derived, at the end of the day, from some form of 'observation' i.e.
> > from
> > a form of sense experience].
> >
> > Donal
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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