PHL 214 Chapter 4: Critical Thinking Textbook-Chapter 4
16 Aug 2015
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Reasons for belief and doubt - chapter 4. If we care whether our beliefs are true or reliable then we must care about the reasons for accepting those beliefs. The better the reasons for acceptance, the more likely are the beliefs or statements, to be true. Inadequate reasons, no reasons, or fake reasons should lead us not to accept a statement, but to doubt it. An unsupported claim may be the premise of an argument and its truth value may then determine whether the argument is sound or cogent or it may stand alone as an assertion of fact. When 2 claims con ict, they simply cannot both be true; at least one of them has to be false. Principle: if a claim con icts with other claims we have good reason to accept, we have good grounds for doubting it.
