PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Inductive Reasoning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Christopher Mc Grath

Document Summary

Sufficiency - a factor that is adequate for the state of affairs to occur (if it"s there, the sof is guaranteed to occur) Jointly sufficient conditions - when multiple conditions, individually work do anything, but when taken together, they are sufficient. The relevant factor would be c (by the method of agreement, because c is present in each case where the effect is present). Method of difference - the relevant factor is present when the effect is present, and absent when the effect is absent. The relevant factor would be b (by the method of difference, because b is present when the effect is present and absent when it"s absent) Method of agreement and difference - the relevant factor is there in all cases where the effect is present, and the relevant factor is absent in all cases where the effect is absent.