PHI 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Science Of Logic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Laura Byrne

Document Summary

When we as merely thinking, our thoughts simply come to us, one after another; when we reason, we actively link thoughts together in such a way we believe one thought provides support to another. Thinking : alan is broke, and he is unhappy. Reasoning : alan is broke; therefore he is unhappy. Inference - a key element in the process of reasoning which envolves a special relationship between different thoughts. Inference indicators - words that indicate that one thought is intended to support another thought since thus because therefore given that. Statement - sentence (set of words) that is making a claim that is true or false, if it is not true or false, it is not a statement. Argument - is a set of statements that claims that one or more of those statements, called the premises, support another one of them, called the. Premises - a group of of statements that lead up to the conclusion.