PHIL-125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chocolate Syrup, Hasty Generalization, Insomnia
6 Feb 2020
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Hasty generalization: argument draws a general conclusion from a small or unrepresentative sample. Example: "father rizzini is a roman catholic priest and he is married. "chemistry for the consumer" was an easy course. I had always thought that chemistry courses were some of the most difficult courses in the university. "jocelyn put her money in gambler"s savings and loan. They went broke and she lost all her money. So no savings and loan institutions are safe places to put your money. " Example: "father murphy preformed last rites for monique, and she died. He preformed it for roderick, and he died. He did for caroline, hilda, and amber and they all died. So if you don"t want to die, don"t let father murphy to preform last rites. " They were going to pass away anyway of natural causes, so this is a false cause. Example: "cigarette smokers have a life expectancy that is 2 years less than that of nonsmokers.
