SOPHIA PHI 445 INTRO TO ETHICS UNIT 1 ACTUAL ASSESSMENT 2026 SOLUTIONS GRADED A+

SOPHIA PHI 445 INTRO TO ETHICS UNIT 1
ACTUAL ASSESSMENT 2026 SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+

◉ Applied Ethics. Answer: The branch of ethics that uses normative
ethical theories to evaluate and prescribe actions in specific
situations and contexts.


◉ Argument. Answer: A group of statements containing both a
factual claim or claims and an inferential claim or claims.


◉ Cogent. Answer: An inductively strong argument with all true
premises.


◉ Conventionalism. Answer: A relativist approach to ethics that
maintains that ethical truths are relative to convention, society, or
culture.


◉ Deductive Argument. Answer: An argument whose inferential
claim is a claim of logical certainty.


◉ Descriptive Ethics. Answer: The branch of ethics that analyzes
people's beliefs about value.

, ◉ Ethics. Answer: The branch of philosophy that analyzes and
defends concepts of value and thereby seeks to determine right and
wrong.


◉ Factual Claim. Answer: A claim that some fact or facts obtain in
the world.


◉ Impermissible. Answer: An action that it is wrong to perform.


◉ Inductive Argument. Answer: An argument whose inferential
claim is a claim less than logical certainty.


◉ Inferential Claim. Answer: A claim that the premises support the
conclusion.


◉ Invalid. Answer: A deductive argument in which the premise(s) do
not logically guarantee their conclusion.


◉ Logical Certainty. Answer: Inconceivable that the conclusion is not
entailed by the premises.


◉ Metaethics. Answer: The branch of ethics that analyzes the nature
of value-based discourse.