Philosophy 6: Logic in Practice  

Pierce College

Department of History, Philosophy, & Sociology

 

 

 

 

Priming Exercise for Complex Arguments

 

 

 

 

On a sheet of paper, put today's date, your name, and your responses to the following prompts. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A) Come up with one premise to support this statement: Power corrupts those who have it. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B) Come up with one statement that could follow from this statement: Power corrupts those who have it.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C) Come up with one example (you can make one up if you don't know of an actual example) of someone who was corrupted as a result of becoming powerful.