PHIL 1180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Disjunctive Syllogism, Middle Term, Syllogism
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Object by disagreeing with a premise by suggesting a third option. We go to the movies or we stay home. We go to the movies or we don"t. Whenever second disjunct is the negation of the first: its exhaustive. Either objects to disjunction or the other premise. We can go to the movies or stay home. Disagree with the other premise: movies are not too expensive. Objecting to dilemmas: both have disjunctive premise that you can disagree with by a third option. Other premise is conjunction of the two conditionals. When a person misrepresents an argument and objects to that. I don"t think we should just legalize all drugs. When a person changes the subject but still sounds like an objection to the argument. Grasping a horn of the dilemma: is disagreeing with one of the conditional statements. Two premise arguments in which all three statements are in categorical form.
