In this and subsequent labs you need to reference the Mission: Critical web site, http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/main.html, which is "an interactive tutorial for critical thinking, in which you will be introduced to basic concepts through sets of instructions and exercises."

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1. Launch Netscape, navigate to the course syllabus and click on the link to Mission: Critical web site.

2. Read the section on Introduction to Statements (or Claims) and do the Exercises for that section.

3. Go to the PHI 215 Philosophical Issues Conference and submit a list of statements of your own (or perhaps from the media) that are of the following types (worth 10 points):

1. An example of a statement whose claims are universal.
2. An example of a statement whose claims are specific.
3. An example of a statement whose claims are verification claims.
4. An example of a statement that makes an evaluative claim.
5. An example of a statement that makes an advocatory claim.

Your topic should be Lab 1, Part 1 - Types of Statements.

4. Read and outline Plato's Line Analogy and Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Find definitions of the terms analogy and allegory from any source and give your own example of each. You might want to try Microsoft's Encarta, an online encyclopedia at http://encarta.msn.com/.

5. Submit your completed outlines and definitions of the Plato's Line Analogy and Allegory of the Cave (worth 20 points) to my jima@sandpiper.sandhills.cc.nc.us email address. Use as the email subject: PHI 215 Lab 1, Part 2.