Philosophy 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Electrical Contacts

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1200
• Professor: Christopher David Viger

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The stages of analyzing an argument: identification, interpretation, determining structure, evaluation. Determining argument structure: identify inference indicators. (doing this on paper, it is a good idea to mark up the argument. I like circles around premise indicators and boxes around conclusion indicators. : underline the conclusion, bracket and label the premises, rewrite the argument in standard form, diagram the argument to represent its structure. *structure need to look at the organization of an argument, under the manner section. Need to work backwards when constructing an argument. A list of all the inferences that make up the argument, leaves out background information, conclusion listed only once. Premises: come before the statements they support. *order in standard form is different than in an argument. Unsupported premises: premises that are not subconclusions, no reason given to. Inference indicators: *not written in standard form support them. Every argument has this because the arguments must start somewhere.