PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: C More Entertainment, Dear Abby

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Sardar Hosseini

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Three steps: recognizing arguments, analyzing arguments, evaluating arguments. There are different ways for analyzing arguments (the o(cid:374)e we"ll use in this course is just one, according to this prof) The goal is to present arguments in what is known as standard form and provide a diagram for the argument. It is slightly arbitrary or artificial, but a helpful way of getting clearer on the content and structure of an argument. The strategy to analyze arguments ii (7) ignore or get rid of elements that do not belong to the argument. Marriage is an institution that should be discarded. I was married for six months myself, you know. You should(cid:374)"t liste(cid:374) to (cid:862)dear a(cid:271)(cid:271)y(cid:863) a(cid:374)d those other moralists. All marriage does is make it too hard to get out of a bad relationship. (8) reformulate claims when necessary. Poetry is not getting better. (9) the only rule: do what you can as you can.