PHIL 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fallacy, Falsifiability, False Dilemma
17 Mar 2015
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Phil2100 chapter ten (ii) the scientific method and the public understanding of science. Specify the conditions that must be satisfied: allow for construction of counter-schemes. Causal reasoning: general causal reasoning, attempts to establish general or universal causal claims, all xs cause all ys, or some xs cause some ys. Particular causal reasoning: attempts to explain a particular event by pointing out a cause, x causes y. Premise 2: the correlation between x and y is not due to chance. Premise 3: the correlation between x and y is not due to some mutual cause z. Premise 4: y is not the cause of x: conclusion: x"s cause y"s. Premise 2: this is the best explanation of the y in question: conclusion: this x caused this y. Examples: as advancements are made in technology, improvements in everyday life have also increased. There is evidence of a causal connection between advancements in technology and improvements in the lives of people.
