Liberty University – PHIL 201 – Exam 1 – 2025 – Practice Questions with Complete Answers (Jones Version)

Liberty University PHIL 201 Exam 1 –
Jones Questions with complete solution
2025 updated


~ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - Negation


. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - Conjunction


V - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - Disjunction


= - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - Equivalence


≠ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - Inequality


> - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - Implication


≡ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - Biconditional (if and only if)


:. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - Conclusion


Three Laws of Thought - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - The Law of Identity
(A=A)
The Law of Excluded Middle (A v~ A)
The Law of Non-Contradiction (A >~~ A)



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, 3 (or 4) Elements of an Argument - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - 1. Premises:
the propositions from which the conclusion follows


2. Conclusion: the proposition that follows from the premises


3. Entailment / Interference: the relationship between the premises and the
conclusion by which the conclusion can be said to follow the premises


Deduction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - An argument where in the premises
logically entail the conclusion


3 (or 4) Types of Deductive Syllogisms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - 1.
Categorical Syllogism
2. Disjunctive Syllogism
3. Hypothetical Syllogism
3a. Two valid forms of hypothetical syllogisms
3b. Two formal fallacies of mixed hypothetical syllogisms


Categorical Syllogism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - States things in terms of
categories
E.x. all of you are students (A=B)


Disjunctive Syllogism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - - If one side isn't true,
the other must be true
- Affirming a disjunction is a fallacy


Hypothetical Syllogism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ - Contains a conditional
proposition (if then)



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