PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Third Epistle Of John
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Three steps: recognizing arguments, analyzing arguments, evaluating arguments. Or: strikes by public employees are illegal, the teachers at ps 197 are public employees, the strike by the teachers at ps 197 is illegal. Or: strikes by public employees are illegal, the teachers at ps 197 are public employees. The strike by the teachers at ps 197 is illegal. Simple arguments: diagrams (v diagram and t diagram) in the case of complex arguments, diagrams often give us a better understanding of the roles played by various premises, and the contribution of various such arguments ex: 1: so, he must be hungry. (c from 1) We put the argument into standard form: john is a student, john studies hard, john is smart. Next, we draw a diagram for the argument: 3 arguments with dependent premises ex: i am taller than john. Determining non-arguments there are many non-arguments that look like arguments the point of an argument is to persuade, not explain.