SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Inductive Reasoning, Fallacy, Descriptive Knowledge
19 Nov 2012
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Adhomenum - attacks someones view by attacking the person, nothing to do with the reasoning. Learning about standards when learning about critical thinking. Why should we think critically? (may be asked why people don"t like to think critical) - refer to slide 12. Inductive argument means we are showing that a conclusion is probably true. Deductive arguments we are showing that the conclusion is 100% true. I wish she will win the race is an assertion but is an opinion about you. Premise is a type of assertion, where a statement that is offered in support of a conclusion. The conclusions can either be at the end of a assertion or in the beginning. A conclusion is a statement that is held to be supported by a premise or premises. Argument is a set of statements one of which (the conclusion) is taken to be supported by the remaining statements.
