RHETOR 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sorites Paradox, Timothy Williamson, Syllogism
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Rule: all the beans from this bag are white* *this is not always true, but is necessary to make, e. g. observe that the sun rises in the morning and conclude that the sun rises every day-- despite not having observed every day. Rule: all the beans from this bag are white. Synthetic inferences are from a subset of information and used to know universal, general conclusions. Analytic inferences are from universal, general conclusions and used to know subsets of information. ^ this is a conditional statement, an if-then statement. Rule: the loss of a single hair from a person with a thick head of hair leaves that person with a thick head of hair. Case: a person with a thick head of hair loses a hair. Result: this person has a thick head of hair. Repeat this syllogism until you have a person with no hair left.
