PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Logical Form, Evolutionism, Thermodynamics
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Phla10 reason and truth exercise 3: explain the structure of arguments from analogy. The structure of analogical arguments involve the shared properties of two or more things, and from this basis inferring that they also share some further property. However, the argument doesn"t state that the two things are identical, but that they are similar. P and q are similar in respect to properties a, b, and c. P has been observed to have further property x. The argument form of design is more like abductive argument. In the case of design argument, the conclusion is given, or we are certain about the conclusion but not the premise. The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that it is impossible for order to arise from disorder by natural processes. It states that a closed" system will move from states of greater order to states of lesser order.
