BUSINESS LOGIC FINAL ACTIVITIES

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Place your answers below. To be submitted on or before February 28, 2022.

Activity No. 1 – A. Arrange each of the following groups of terms in order of increasing
intension (5 items; 5 pts each; -1 per error):

1. Animal, feline, lynx, mammal, vertebrate, wildcat

Answer: Animal, Vertebrate, Mammal, Feline, Wildcat, Lynx

2. Alcoholic beverage, beverage, champagne, fine white wine, white wine, wine
Answer: Beverage, Alcoholic Beverage, Wine, White Wine, Fine White Wine,
Champagne

3. Athlete, ball player, baseball player, fielder, infielder, shortstop

Answer: Athlete, Ball Player, Baseball Player, Fielder, Infielder, Shortstop.

4. Cheese, dairy product, Limburger, milk derivative, soft cheese, strong soft cheese
Answer: Dairy product, Milk Derivative, Cheese, Soft Cheese, Strong Soft
Cheese, Limburger.

5. Integer, number, positive integer, prime number, rational number, real number
Answer: Number, Real Number, Rational Number, Integer, Positive Integer,
Prime Number

Activity No. 2 – B. Divide the following list of terms into five groups of five terms each,
arranged in order of increasing intension (5 groups; 10 pts per group; -1 per error).

Aquatic animal, beast of burden, beverage, brandy, cognac, domestic animal, filly,
fish, foal, game fish, horse, instrument, liquid, liquor, musical instrument,
muskellunge, parallelogram, pike, polygon, quadrilateral, rectangle, square,
Stradivarius, string instrument, violin

Group Polygon, Quadrilateral, Parallelogram, Rectangle, Square

1

Group Instrument, Musical Instrument, String Instrument, Violin, Stradivarius

2

Group Liquid, Beverage, Liquor, Brandy, Cognac

3

Group Domestic Animal, Beast of Burden, Horse, Foal, Filly

4

Group Aquatic Animal, Fish, Game Fish, Pike, Muskellunge

5
Activity No. 3 – C. Define the following terms by example, enumerating three examples for
each term (10 items; 3 pts each):

1. actor
Answer: Daniel Padilla, Enrique Gil, James Reid

2. boxer
Answer: Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, Donito Donaire

3. composer
Answer: Ryan Cayabyab, Levi Celerio, Nicanor Abelardo

4. dramatist
Answer: Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams

5. element
Answer: Copper, Nickel, Aluminum

6. flower
Answer: Sunflower, Rose, Tulip

7. general (officer)
Answer: Gregorio Aglipay, Baldomero Aguinaldo, Crispulo Aguinaldo

8. harbor
Answer: Sydney Harbor, Australia and Trincomalee Harbor, Boston Harbor

9. inventor
Answer: Nikola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison

10. poet
Answer: Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, W.B Yeats

Activity No.4 - Read “Love is a Fallacy.” Find and identify the fallacies presented within the
short story and then, explain. (Clue: 7 fallacies + 1 hidden [but not so secret] fallacy; if you
can find and identify the hidden fallacy you can have 10 bonus points to be added to the sum
total of your final requirement; if the hidden fallacy cannot be or mistakenly identified, there
will be no bonus points; 30 pts; -2 pts per mistake).
Answer: 1. Dicto Simpliciter- An argument based on unqualified
generalization.
Ex. From the story- “Exercise is good. Therefore, everybody
should exercise.”
2. Hasty Generalization- The scope of evidence is too small to
support the conclusion.
Ex. From the story- “You can speak French, I can't speak French,
Petey Burch can't speak French. I must therefore
conclude that nobody at the University of Minnesota can speak
French.” If most of the people the
author (Dobie Gillis) knows cannot speak French he concludes
that no one at the college can
speak French. OR "My dear," I said, favoring her with a smile,
"we have now spent five evenings
together. We have gotten along, splendidly. It is clear that we are
well matched."
3. Post Hoc- It is committed when it is concluded that one event
causes another simply because the proposed cause occurred
before the proposed effect.
Ex. From the story- “Let's not take Bill on our picnic. Every time
we take him out with us, it rains.”
4. Contradictory Premises- Conclusions are drawn from the
interactions of premises: where two premises contradict each
other, there can be no interaction and hence, no conclusion.
Ex. From the story- “I do not see the contradictory premise in
this story. The main contradiction would be that the
author (Dobie Gillis) begins the story believing that love is
logical and can be won through logic.
However, the end of the story proves that love is not logical and
Dobie’s original belief was a fallacy.”
5. Ad Misericordiam- It is a logical fallacy in which someone tries
to win support in their arguments by exploiting their opponent’s
feelings of pity.
Ex. From the story- "A man applies for a job. When the boss
asks him what his qualifications are, he replies the he
has wife and six children at home, the wife is a helpless cripple,
the children have nothing to eat,
no clothes to wear, no shoes on their feet, there are no beds in the
house, no coal in the cellar,
and winter is coming." OR “Polly, I love you. You are the whole
world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of
outer space. Please, my darling, say that you will go steady
with me, for if you will not, life will be meaningless. I will
languish. I will refuse my meals. I will wander the face of the
earth, a shambling, hollow-eyed hulk."
6. False Analogy- It is the process of making connection between
two common things but there is no known connection between
them.
Ex. From the story- “Students should be allowed to look at their
textbooks during examinations. After all, surgeons
 have X-rays to guide them during an operation, lawyers have
briefs to guide them during a trial,
and carpenters have blueprints to guide them when they are
building a house. Why then,
shouldn't students be allowed to look at their textbooks during an
examination?" OR "My dear," I
said, patting her hand in a tolerant manner, "five dates is plenty.
After all, you don't have to eat a
whole cake to know it's good."
7. Hypothesis Contrary to Fact- Extracting the conclusion from the
fact that what would happen if it was not correct.
Ex. From the story- “If Madame Curie had not happened to leave
a photographic plate in a drawer with a chunk of
pitchblende, the world today would not know about radium." OR
“If I hadn't come along you
never would have learned about fallacies." This the author
(Dobie Gillis) says to Polly.”
8. Poisoning the Well- The fact or limitation of anything which is
presented in front of everybody and then let them to do the
assigned work.
Ex. From the story- "Two men are having a debate. The first one
gets up and says, 'My opponent is a notorious liar.
You can't believe a word that he is going to say.” OR "You can't
go with him, Polly. He's a liar. He's
a cheat. He's a rat."