PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Northern Ontario, Deductive Reasoning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Sascha Maicher

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They have an implicit therefore they are always saying blah blah blah therefore this is. "therefore"" is an indicator of an argument. Conclusion indicators : hence, thus, consequently, which shows that, etc Premise indicator : in view of, for, this is implied by, it shows that, on a count of a fact, A premise has to be an inference to a conclusion. Just because they are used it does not mean that we have an argument because, in so far as. When a deductive argument is correct it is valid you have a valid deductive argument with a true conclusion premise true then the conclusion must be true. Therefore andy lives in canada has to follow that if he does live in ontario then he lives in. Implied premise don"t spell them out cause too obvious. If the logical structure is not correct then you don"t have a deductive argument. The premise does not necessitate a conclusion.