PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Counterexample, Fallacy, Deductive Reasoning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Laura Byrne

Document Summary

The premise should be adequate to support the conclusion. Premises should be adequate to support the conclusion, just as these flying buttresses must be strong enough to support the cathedral walls. Relying on premises that are inadequate to support the conclusion is sometimes called: The criteria of adequacy for deductive arguments is called deductive validity. The criteria of adequacy for inductive arguments is called inductive strength. There are no self-tests or practice questions assigned for this fallacy. As a result, this fallacy will only appear in the concepts parts of the examination, not in the applications part. This fallacy occurs when it is argued that something that occurs before some event must be the cause of that event. But, this does not mean that everything that precedes some event must be its cause. Most people who are read the last rites die shortly afterwards. Therefore, priests are going around killing people with magic words!