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Problem
Consider the following passage, which contains a complex argument.
There is no way to tell whether awareness continues after death, so we can only conclude that it does not. But we are nothing more than awareness, since without awareness we experience nothing, not even utter darkness. Thus we do not survive death. Any moral system based on the certainty of reward or punishment in an afterlife is therefore fundamentally mistaken.
I. Write a numbered list of all the claims involved in the argument.
II. Write a list of which claims support which (using your numbers from part (I)).
III. Provide an argument diagram (using your numbers from part (I)). Get the instant assignment help.
IV. For each inference step in the complex argument, evaluate it by determining whether it is valid deductive, strong inductive, or weak. Explain your answer by applying the definition of the relevant concept to the specifics of this argument.
V. Evaluate the entire complex argument as valid deductive, strong inductive, or weak. Explain your answer by applying the evaluation criterion for complex arguments.