PHIL 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Judith Martin, Fallacy

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 105
• Professor: Jonathan Katz

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Many prisoners have complained . they say about the jail. Ad homen, they are criminals so we don"t have to listen to what they say. Appeal to census/populus, but in the wrong arena. We test smoking effects on mice, and find that they have cancer, thus we humans will get cancer too. The objects have to be similar in relevant ways. F g h have to relevant and lots for z. The presence of f g h should increase the likelihood of z occurring. The objects/events have to be a large sample. We rely on a principle : similar acts deserve similar treatments. Color a is indistinguishable from color b, so they should be treated equally. But if color b is indistinguishable from color c, then color a=color c. The principle is correct but it is not good for everything. Ex: abortion=no stage where we can draw a line and say it can be aborted .