PHIL 2P25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Validity, Enthymeme
1 Jan 2019
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In natural language, there are words which are indicators of conclusion. Ex because i have to study for the test, i could not come to the party . Reasons not always given to support conclusion, sometimes given to explain a fact. In an argument, you not explaining a fact, you are trying to support a conclusion. Arguments are not always explicit, sometimes implicit. Premise or conclusion is not explicitly stated. Where everything is good, nothing can be unjust since justice is inseparable from goodness . Principle of charity says do your best to interpret what the person is saying as if it were an argument. If you can construe a passage as containing an argument, make it the strongest argument which the author would accept. In an enthymeme, a premise or the conclusion is left unstated. Not material being can self-active and i perceive that i am. Therefore, i am not a material being is the conclusion left unstated.
