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

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

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Indicators that point us to the nature of the argument. Find the claim then recognize the supposed evidence for the claim, what is the evidence and how do the premise support the claim. In what way is it related to the conclusion. (factual) premise (inference) *arrow down* (premise) claim. Our language is logic, logical structure, when correctly used it reflects logic when correctly written. First thing you do is look for the conclusion for the claim. If you use because then it turns into an argument because the because" makes it into evidence. Because is the simplest premise indicator and therefore. To identify an argument: look at the indicators of a conclusion. Rephrase what your reading into terms that you are familiar, into because" and therefore . In order to simplify what the argument is doing. Distinction between two kinds of arguments which refer to two kinds of knowledge (ways at getting at knowledge: deductive.