PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Foodborne Illness, Sampling Bias, Deductive Reasoning

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

Document Summary

When an argument shows that its conclusion is worth accepting : we say that the argument is good. When an argument fails to do so : we say that the argument is bad. But there are different ways for an argument to be good or bad: because there are different types of arguments. An argument intended to provide logically conclusive support for its conclusion. Their premises are meant to guarantee the conclusion: nondeductive argument. An argument intended to provide probable (but not conclusive) support for its conclusion. The premises are meant to confer some high degree of probability on the conclusion. It is intended to provide conclusive support for its conclusion: final, definitive, undeniable support, the structure of some arguments is deductive, when arguments structured this way are good, they guarantee their conclusion. In each case, if the premises offered really are true, then the conclusion must also be true.