PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Implicature, Enthymeme, Fallacy
7 Jul 2017
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Missing premises argument forms: yes no (invalid) (cid:883)(cid:882). All p"s are true conclusion is true valid or )nvalid: yes yes (cid:523)you don"t know(cid:524, no yes (cid:523)you don"t know(cid:524, no no (cid:523)you don"t know(cid:524) what"s missing. Enthymeme: an argument that has a missing part, enough info so you can infer. Webster definition of enthymeme: an argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated. I ate some of the pie am i lying if i said i ate some of it?- no you"re not unless they ask all. This implies that she got preggo hehe so she had to get married. Implicature: when an utterance implies but it is not stated and does not strictly follow (the implicature is - and then she got married. = the implicature- gas station not far, it is open. Donavan is poor but happy= only have two facts surprisingly though he"s poor is happy (what is the word but in there for?)
