SOC 3730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Precondition, Soundness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3730
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

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Uniformity: apply uniformly the same for people that are charged with the same crime when you come before the courts you are expected to be treated the same. Penal sanctions: justice and democracy, the penalty should fit the crime. Types of argument: argument, deductive, inductive, abductive (determining the precondition, precondition, conclusion, and rule (structural argument, court. A type of reasoning where the conclusion is sought. Premises and conclusion: the premises is true then the conclusion must also be true, if p, then q, p; therefore, q, if t, therefore true. Premise a: all of u of guelph are clever. If you can connect all the evidence, then they must be guilty as charged. Premises and conclusions: well it might not be true, they might or might not be guilty, premises are suppose to support the conclusions. What is the best answer or explanation for the answers you already have. We choose the hypothesis that best explain our evidence.