MODR 1730 Lecture 15: MODR 1730- Octoer 15th, 2014.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Modes Of Reasoning
• Course: MODR 1730
• Professor: Philip Mac Ewen

Document Summary

Is the explanation better than its alternatives: assessing inferences from particular cases to generalizations: a. b. Is the generalization based on systematic observation of a number of cases (observation under the same conditions)? c. Is the generalization based on a specific sample: does the generalization have an identified, or identifiable, population? e. Is the sample representative of the population: where applicable, is the range of variation in the population identified or identifiable, does the generalization go beyond the population, assessing causal inferences: a. Is the cause prior in time to the effect: are the cause and the effect spatially contiguous; if not, is there an intervening mechanism to account for this? c.