For the Following, Try to Come Up with an Additional

question 140

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.
The computer programs we recently received are all "shareware"-they are accompanied by notices saying that anyone who keeps and uses the program should send a small fee to the author. I think it's only right that we send a check to two of the program authors, since we've started getting a lot of use out of two of the programs.

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