PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Venn Diagram, Fallacy

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

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Identify if the argument is an premise or a conclusion. Inductive generalization : specific general: statistical syllogism: general specific, plausibility: case building arguments. Several premises that support the conclusion: causal argument: mill"s method a) Method of agreement looking for a common factor. Method of difference comparing a situation with what"s present b) and what is absent c) Joint method of agreement and difference combination of the two. Method of concomitant variation looks for the correlation d) between the two events: analogy comparing two things (similar = successful; dissimilar = unsuccessful) Draw a venn diagram for caterogical syllogism (3 questions) There are 4 types of categorical syllogisms. State if it is valid / invalid. Read a passage and say if it is vague. Explain how the vagueness could be resolved. 19 fallacies 24 questions = 24 marks. Fallacy of equivocation when one meaning is used in one premise and another meaning of the word in another premise.