AS101 Lecture 9: Chapter 9
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Arguments from experience involve the attempt to justify a general conclusion on the basis of observations, or make particular predictions about the future in light of what has happened in the past. Like arguments from analogy, arguments from experience can have conclusions that are only probably, not certainly true. Appeals to the experiences someone has had of some members of a class of objects to support a conclusion about all or most members of that class. E. g: all of the hot dogs i have ever eaten have made me sick so all hot dogs make me sick. All of the hot dogs i have ever eaten made me sick so most hot dogs make me sick. Appeals to the experiences someone has had of many members of a class to support a conclusion about a single, unexperienced member of that class. Draws a conclusion about only one thing: something that has not yet been experienced.
