PHIL 1000 Lecture : Philosophy 1000 Lecture 1
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Read definitions and skim definition on website for next class https://bookofbadarguments. com. Always have the reading done on he day the reading is listed on the syllabus. Proposition: a statement that is either true or false, but not both. For example, boston is the largest city in massachusetts. Premiss: a proposition that provides support to an argument"s conclusion. An argument may have one or more premisses. Argument: a set of propositions aimed at persuading through reasoning. In an argument, a subset of propositions, called premisses, provide support for some other proposition called the conclusion. Deductive argument: an argument in which if the premisses are true, then the conclusion must be true. The conclusion is said to follow with logical necessity from the premisses. Inductive argument: an argument in which if the premisses are true, then it is probable that the conclusion will also be true2. The conclusion therefore does not follow with logical necessity from the premisses, but rather with probability.
