- Maybe you have considered buying a term life insurance policy. The expected value of any term life insurance product yields a positive expected value for the insurance company and a negative expected value for you, meaning the insurance company will make profits by selling their insurance products. Would you still buy the term life insurance? Why or why not? Are there other examples other than insurance that uses this same concept?
2.
Find an example of a sound or unsound deductive argument, or construct your own example.
- Outline or describe your chosen argument for your classmates, but don’t define your argument as sound or unsound. See if you can stump them!
- In addition to your main response, you must also post substantive responses to at least two of your classmates’ posts: Are the arguments they chose/constructed sound or unsound?
- What conditions do you think are necessary to make an argument sound?