For the Following, Try to Come Up with an Additional

question 78

Essay

For the following, try to come up with an additional premise that will turn the passage into a deductively valid or an inductively strong argument. Usually this requires adding a general moral principle and, sometimes, an extra nonmoral claim as well. The idea is to guarantee that the "ought" claim follows from the "is" claim.
Mortimer did the right thing when he decided to start a regular deduction from his paycheck on behalf of the United Way.

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Definitions:

Data

Information, especially facts or numbers, collected to be examined and considered and used to help decision-making.

Value for Y

This term does not directly correspond to a widely recognized economic concept without additional context. It may be used in specific mathematical or economic models to denote the value of a variable Y.

Marginal Utility

The change in total utility a person receives from consuming one additional unit of a good or service.

Change in Total Utility

The difference in the overall satisfaction a consumer receives before and after the consumption of an additional unit of a good or service.