Question

Affirming the Consequent , Denying the Antecedent , or Undistributed Middle

5. ______ If Orville does not turn his work in on time, he will not pass accounting. Orville passes accounting. He turns his work in on time. 6. _____If Hortense and Algernon work together, they will pass. Hortense and Algernon did not work together. They did not pass. 7. ______Hortense catches the flu If Orville catches the flu. If Orville catches the flu, then Algernon will catch the flu. Therefore, if Hortense catches the flu, then so will Algernon. 8. _______If Hortense gets the job, then she will need a new computer. Hortense will get a computer good for gaming only if she needs a new computer. Thus, Hortense will get a computer good for gaming only if she gets the job.

Answer 1

Affirming the consequent is the action of taking a true statement and invalidly concluding its converse.

Denying the antecedent, sometimes also called inverse error or fallacy of the inverse, is a formal fallacy of inferring the inverse from the original statement. It is committed by reasoning in the form: If P, then Q. Therefore, if not P, then not Q.

The undistributed middle is a logical fallacy of deduction in which the middle term of a syllogism is not distributed in at least one of the premises.

Based on above learning we can conclude that,

5- Affirming the Consequent.

6- Denying the antecedent.

7- Undistributed middle.

8- Undistributed middle.