(1) All men are mortal.
(2) All Irving’s books are interesting (or uninteresting).
(3) All the presidents of the United States who have been assassinated were Republicans.
(4) “Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Emerson, Self-Reliance
(5) Money is the root of all evil.
2. Give in full the specific instances upon which each of the foregoing inductions is based.
3. Apply the requirements for validity to each of the inductions in exercise one, and state the result.
4. Write an inductive argument of four hundred words.