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PHI 007Y A01 WQ 2025 Week 6 Quiz

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P1. Pornography can cause harm. C. We should ban pornography. Which premises can we add (individually) that would make the argument valid: 

Options
A.if x should be banned, x causes harm.
B.if x can cause harm, x should be banned.
C.x causing harm is a sufficient condition for banning x
D.If x should be banned, x can cause harm.
E.Everything that can cause harm should be banned.
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We are given an initial argument structure: P1. Pornography can cause harm. C. We should ban pornography. The task is to consider which single premises, added individually, would render the argument valid. Now we will evaluate each option in turn. Option A: 'if x should be banned, x causes harm.' If we add this as a premise, the reasoning would be: if pornography should be banned, then pornography causes harm. From P1 (pornography can cause harm) we would have a basis to infer the conclusion (pornography should be banned) only if we also had 'x should be banned' as a premise, which we do not. In short, this premise is about a relationship in the opposite ......Login to view full explanation

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