PHL 214 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sexual Reproduction, Co-Premise, Rhetorical Question

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL 214
• Professor: David Laverty

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When we standardize an argument, we identify its component propositions and consider how they are related to one another. We ask two questions to help us recognize arguments. In standardizing arguments, easier to identify conclusion first (usually in first or last sentence of passage). Example: single-sex high schools work better than co-educational high schools because adolescents do better when they aren"t distracted by the presence of the opposite sex. Also, the developmental needs of adolescent boys and girls are divergent: in the first method of standardization, start by writing the conclusion at the bottom of the page. The other premises support the conclusion, give each of those premises its own line above the conclusion. Adolescents do better when they aren"t distracted by the presence of the opposite sex. The developmental needs of adolescent boys and girls are divergent. Single-sex high schools work better than coeducational high schools: the second method of standardization is a diagram and moves the opposite directions.