PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Fallacy, Mahatma Gandhi, Modus Ponens

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

Document Summary

Emphasise that if something is associated with the cause, it doesn"t guarantee it. The fact that one even came after another establishes that it was caused by the other. One thing happened, the other thing must happen (correlated: tuitions is going up, student enrollment is going up. These fallacies trick us because they fail to control other possibilities. When the sample happens to be unseal (you don"t know because it is the first sample) so when you test again they return to normal but it is different than the first sample. Everyone in canada wear glove when they are driving during the winter and this causes more accident underlining might be the weather: whether the cause and relationship is going the other way. Cause of b is causing a: having a good attitude and having good luck, literally look at the bright side.