SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: False Premise, Argument From Analogy, Exclusive Or

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 105
• Professor: Klaas Kraay

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Personalizing reasons treating them as if they belonged to someone. Epistemic reasons are universal, reasons for 1 person to believe, then they are reasons for everyone to believe it. Epistemic reasons are objective, evidence is sufficient or acceptable is objective. Appeal to relativism mistake to assume truth is relative, only works for some topics like what is funny, tasty, a(cid:374)d fashio(cid:374)a(cid:271)le. Topi(cid:272)s like religio(cid:374) or (cid:373)orality, it"s (cid:271)est to ha(cid:448)e a realis(cid:373) approa(cid:272)h. Appeal to emotion (cid:373)istake to (cid:271)ase (cid:271)eliefs o(cid:374) e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e feel (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s (cid:374)ot e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e that our belief is true. Privileging confirming evidence mistake to claim evidence we already believe is better than new conflicting evidence. What we believe could (cid:271)e false or outdated therefore it"s a (cid:373)istake. Privileging available evidence mistake to assume evidence we have now is better than future evidence we can collect. Mistake because if we were to collect more evidence, it might undermine or override what we have.