This page holds a finished PHIL-347N Week 4 premise truth check, taking each numbered line of a reconstruction separately and reporting what it would take to establish it. Searches like "phil 347n week 4 assignment example", "phil347n week 4 sample" and "phil-347n week 4 example" land here.
What a finished PHIL-347N Week 4 premise truth check looks like
A table or a run of short headed blocks, one per premise, and the finished document looks more like an inventory than like an essay. Each block repeats the premise verbatim, then labels it: an empirical report, a definition, a value judgment, a prediction, a statement about what some group believes. The label decides everything after it, because a value judgment does not get checked against a database and a figure does not get settled by argument. Then the verdict for that line, in one of four flavors: established, false, partly true with the qualification supplied, or unverifiable on available sources. Factual lines carry a citation. The final block is not a premise at all but a short note on which verdicts, if any, sink the argument.
How a PHIL-347N Week 4 example is structured
Sources are where sections differ most here; some require scholarly ones, some accept any citable public record, and a few want the check done from the course reading alone. The document runs premise by premise in the order the reconstruction numbered them, never reordered by how interesting they are. Within a block, the claim comes first and the classification second, because the classification determines what evidence would even be relevant. The search comes next, described in a clause: what was looked for and where. The verdict follows, stated plainly, with the qualification written into it rather than bolted on afterwards. A line then records what the verdict does to the argument, which is the connective tissue graders complain is missing. The closing note gathers the damage: one false line can be fatal or harmless depending on where it sits.
One block per line
The premise reproduced word for word at the head of its own block, so that nothing gets checked against a remembered version of what it said.
What kind of claim is this
Empirical, definitional, evaluative or predictive, decided before any checking starts, because each kind answers to a different sort of evidence and some answer to none.
The source read against the sentence
A reference is only useful if it speaks to this line. The example quotes the part of the source that does, rather than citing the work as a whole.
Four verdicts, not two
True and false are not enough. Partly true with a qualification, and unverifiable on what is publicly available, are real findings and are written as findings.
What the damage amounts to
A closing note saying which lines were load-bearing. A false premise the argument never needed is a different result from a false premise holding up the conclusion.
Where marks go in PHIL-347N Week 4
The biggest single drop comes from delivering a verdict on the argument when the assignment asked for verdicts on its lines, which reads as the week before's work handed in twice. Close behind: the source that supports something adjacent. A citation establishing that a practice is common does not establish that it is effective, and graders read the source against the sentence, not against the topic. Treating a value line as though a citation could settle it wastes the reference and misses what the line actually is. Collapsing cannot be verified into false gives away a distinction the course is built on. And a block ending at the verdict, with nothing said about what that verdict costs the argument, leaves the connecting row unfilled.
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PHIL-347N Week 4 questions, answered
Does a false premise mean the argument is invalid?
No, and the example says so explicitly, because the two tests are separate and this is the sentence that proves you know it. An argument can be perfectly built and rest on a line that is simply untrue; what follows is that the conclusion is not established, not that the reasoning failed. Saying that plainly earns the row.
What if I cannot find anything on a premise at all?
Then the finding is that it is unsupported, written as such with the search described in a clause so a reader can see the effort. That is a legitimate result and often the honest one for claims about what most people think. What costs points is leaving the block blank, or filling it with a source that is about the general subject.
How is this different from evaluating a study?
The question here is whether a sentence is true, not whether a piece of research was well designed. Those live in different courses and the second one is a much bigger job. A premise check may lean on a study, but it stops at whether the claim holds up; it does not grade the sampling, the measures or the statistics behind it.