PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hasty Generalization, Sample Size Determination

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Mark Brown

Document Summary

Outline: tuesday is review and practice test, 60 marks (worth 25% of final mark) Section 1: multiple choice (5 marks, 1 per question) Section 2: figure out what is implicit, the premise or conclusion (2 marks per question, 5 questions, 10 marks. Section 3: present the following arguments in standard form, with a diagram. (5 marks per question, 7 question, 35 marks. Identify which of the 3 arguments are successful or unsuccessful. (2 marks per question, 5 questions: 10 marks. So an argument can be: close to certain, very likely, or somewhat likely, unsuccessful: If the degree of support that the premises gives, the conclusion is little or none at all, then we describe the argument as being unsuccessful. It is unsuccessful when its premises are not relevant to the conclusion, do not adequately support the conclusion, or do not provide sufficient information that is relevant to the conclusion: types: