Philosophy 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: False Dilemma, Deductive Reasoning, Begging
15 Nov 2018
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*we tend to weaken the context for statement we want to believe and strengthen it for statement we want to deny. *intuition and common sense are powerful tools for analysis and assessment. Fallacies of clarity can make the premises unacceptable: accent, referential, and grammatical ambiguity, equivocation, etc : begging the question. Premises that assume the conclusion are unacceptable. This argument does not give us any reason to believe in it. Conclusion is already assumed in the premises. Ex god exists according to the bible, which is true since it is the word of god, therefore god exists . Different than entailment (in which something logically follows from the premise, which makes a good deductive argument) Basically you are just stating the conclusion and making it seem like you have premises to support that : inconsistency. When there is a contradiction from the premises. First premise is contradicting the last one .
