This page holds a finished PHIL-347N Week 3 hidden premise exercise, showing the unstated sentence a passage needs before its stated reasons can carry the conclusion. Searches like "phil 347n week 3 assignment example", "phil347n week 3 sample" and "phil-347n week 3 example" land here.
What a finished PHIL-347N Week 3 hidden premise exercise looks like
Short, and shorter than students expect for the points it carries. The passage appears first, then its stated reasons in a compressed list, then a line drawn under them where the reasoning stops being written down. The supplied sentence follows, set off on its own, phrased as a general statement rather than as a comment about this case. Under it, a paragraph showing two things at once: that the argument does not work without this sentence, and that it does work with it. Many examples also carry a short test, where the supplied sentence is denied and the conclusion is shown collapsing, which is the cleanest demonstration available that the right piece was found. A closing line asks whether the author would have written it that way.
How a PHIL-347N Week 3 example is structured
Most sections hand you the passage; a few let you bring one, and a brought passage should be short enough to quote whole. The order that produces a defensible answer starts by writing the conclusion and the stated reasons in bare form, because the gap is invisible while the prose is still decorated. Next comes the question that does the work: what would somebody have to already believe for these reasons to make that conclusion reasonable? The answer is drafted, then narrowed, because a first attempt is nearly always too broad and rescues arguments the author never made. It is then tested twice, once by denial and once by attribution: deny it and watch the conclusion fail, then ask whether the author, reading it, would say yes, that is what I meant.
The stated reasons, stripped
The passage reduced to its bare lines before anything is added, since an unstated step cannot be seen while the original phrasing is still doing its work.
The question that finds it
What has to be believed already for these lines to make the conclusion reasonable, asked about this passage rather than about the topic in general.
Writing it the author's way
The sentence phrased so the author would claim it, which usually means weaker and more specific than the first draft, and never phrased as an accusation.
The denial test
The supplied sentence negated to show the argument coming apart. If the conclusion still stands with it denied, the wrong piece was supplied and the search continues.
Where it plugs in
A line naming which numbered reasons the new sentence joins, because a hidden premise floating free of the list cannot be marked for doing anything.
Where marks go in PHIL-347N Week 3
Most of the loss in this week sits in one move: supplying a sentence built for demolition. Write the missing piece as something no sensible person believes and you have swapped the exercise for a different, easier one, and the row that pays for fair reading goes empty. Next in size is the restatement, where the supplied sentence turns out to be one of the stated reasons wearing different clothes, which closes no distance at all. Then the sentence so broad it would license a hundred unrelated conclusions. Supplying four candidates and ranking none is a smaller drain, and so is producing a good sentence with no line showing where it attaches or what fails without it.
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Send the passage and the week's instruction, plus the rubric if you have it, and an example comes back inside 24-48h with the unstated sentence supplied and defended. First one free. Tell us if your section wants more than one candidate, because some ask for two and a choice between them.
PHIL-347N Week 3 questions, answered
How do I know there is only one hidden premise?
Often there is not. Arguments can lean on several unspoken beliefs, and the exercise usually wants the one carrying the most weight, meaning the one whose denial does the most damage. Where two are genuinely doing work, the example names both and shows which it treats as primary. What the grader marks is the demonstration, not the count.
Is a definition a hidden premise?
Sometimes, and the example states which of the two it takes this to be. If the author is relying on a word meaning something contested, then the definition is the unstated step and the argument turns on it. If the meaning is uncontroversial, supplying it fills the page without closing anything, and a grader reading fast will see padding.
What if the passage seems to have no gap at all?
That normally means the missing piece is one you share with the author, which is exactly why it went unwritten. Read the lines as somebody from a different background would, or ask what a person who accepted every stated reason could still deny. Something is almost always there, and in the rare case it is not, saying so with the working shown is a real answer.