PHIL 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Syntactic Ambiguity, Critical Thinking, Modus Tollens
26 May 2020
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Scope fallacy: failing to distinguish between, for example, everybody likes somebody, there is somebody whom everybody likes, for example: stopped! , a woman gives birth in canada every three minutes. She must be found and: scope fallacy (which typically includes syntactic ambiguity), every three minutes in canada, some woman or other gives birth versus there exists some particular woman in canada who gives birth every three minutes. Equivocation: for example, in times of war, civil rights must sometimes be curtailed. In the second world war, for example, military police and the rcmp spied on many canadian citizens without first getting warrants. Well, now we are locked in a war on drugs, battling the dealers and manufacturers who would turn our children into addicts. If that means cutting a few corners on civil rights, well, that is a price we judged to be worth paying in earlier conflicts: the second world war was an actual war.
