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Justifying claims - Exercise 1

Describe how you would attempt to justify or refute each of the following claims:

  1. Mangoes are heavier than lemons.

  2. Cut chillies are less hot when mixed with salt and lemon juice.

  3. Uncooked apples are tastier than uncooked bitter gourd.

  4. Ripe mangoes are tastier than ripe lemons.

  5. Ripe mangoes are tastier than ripe apples.

  6. At NUS, critical thinking questions play a more central role in the examinations in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences than in the Faculty of Science.

  7. Prayer has a positive effect on healing.

  8. Buddhism is an atheistic religion.

  9. Marital infidelity is immoral.