PHI 1101 Lecture 4: 09/27/16

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Devin Shaw

Document Summary

Not meant to be valid but meant to confer some high degree of probability. Ex (pg 33) patrick failing a class (99% pass) Judged as a nondeductive argument, it"s close to certain that patrick will pass the course. Judged as to whether their premises make concl. More likely than not . success depends on a matter of degree. Successful argument - close to certain, very likely, somewhat likely. Statistical syllogism reasons from a portion of a population to individual. Sometimes we have good, but incomplete, knowledge of soe group of people or things. Based on that, we reach a conclusion about some member of that group. Ex 2015 - 88 women were elected to parliament (338 members) (26%) Proportion of the group aid to have the characteristic. One premise will always contain a generalization about the group. Inductive generalization inference from a sample population to a larger group.