PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deductive Reasoning, Pedophilia
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Animals often use their body colors as protective means from predation. Therefore, its either the case that the color is used as a warning signal or camouflage. Not always true-exceptions so conclusion can be false but it is likely to be true. Do natural laws bear necessity-if so what kind of necessity. At a certain altitude, water freezes at 0 degrees celsius. Experiments confirm that it is always the case. Therefore, all things being equal, this water freezes at 0 degrees celsius. Is this a deductive argument or non-deductive argument on empirical evidence. It is a nondeductive argument because premise 2 depends. Experiments are limited-tomorrow there could be a new scientific discovery that shows a different degree that water freezes at. Treat laws of nature as empirical-there are exceptions. In the morning, you"ve discovered that the bridge has been disappeared. It must be the case that the flood has destroyed the bridge. Inferring the best explanation to the given phenomena.
