PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lake Ontario, False Premise, Deductive Reasoning

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

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Test on january 24: chap 1,2,3 (no deductive reasoning) Look if the premise actually supports the conclusion. See if the conclusion is plausible in regards of the premise. Do the premises make the conclusion probable or likely. Questions: winters in montreal successful, causes of death unsuccessful, lake ontario successful, theatre groups unsuccessful. The movement is from the particular to the general. The movement is from the general to the particular. Ends with a conclusion about a particular: erica/freethinking successful (but too vague most , beagles unsuccessful, lefthanded unsuccessful (false premise, prefoessor noonan unsuccessful. Chapter 3, page 42 (textbook: inductive generalist (survey, opinion poll, statistical syllogism, statistical syllogism, plausibility argument unsuccessful, inductive generalization unsuccessful. Test: write what is implicit (premise or conclusion) look for premise/conclusion indicators (0. 5 marks, write what the implicit premise/conclusion is. (1. 5 marks, standard from argument diagram form (7 questions 28pts) Simple = 1 inference = 1 conclusion.