Philosophy 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pizza Pizza

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1200
• Professor: Eric Desjardins

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Welcome to lecture #13! (cid:73) review (cid:73) assessing the acceptability of premises. Assessing arguments (cid:73) three criteria: (cid:73) the premises must be acceptable as premises for the argument (cid:73) the premises must be relevant to the conclusion (cid:73) the premises must be adequate to support the conclusion. Acceptability (cid:73) acceptability (cid:73) the premises must acceptable as premises for the argument. Empirical and non-empirical claims (cid:73) how we go about assessing a claim depends on what kind of claim it is. Empirical and non-empirical claims (cid:73) how we go about assessing a claim depends on what kind of claim it is. (cid:73) empirical claim: a claim that can be veri ed or falsi ed through observation or experiment. Empirical and non-empirical claims (cid:73) examples of empirical claims: Empirical and non-empirical claims (cid:73) examples of empirical claims: (cid:73) there are 120 students in this room.