Question

Consider the following statements: "Inner-city household interviewing is especially difficult and expensive. This survey involves substantial inner-city household interviewing. The interviewing in this survey will be especially difficult and expensive." This is an example of _____.
a. an empirical argument
b. an inductive argument
c. an exposition
d. a deductive argument

Answer 1

Answer:

d. a deductive argument

Explanation:

Deductive argument is one that is conveyed as the arguer to be seductively valid, and conclusions bare drawn from this argument.

So the argument here is that inner city household interviews are difficult and expensive.

Based on this argument, the fact that we are carrying out substantial inner city household interviews now will mean that they will be expensive.

The truth of the conclusion is dependent on the validity of the first argument.