PHIL 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Flying Saucer, Yankee
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Premises: claims that support arguments reason to believe. Premise: if you are a cat, then you have a tail. If a, then b a is true; therefore b is true. If (then) all x are y only if. If the building is on fire, then you should leave; the building is on fire , therefore you should leave. Something gives live birth only if it"s a mammal. If it gives live birth, then it is a mammal. If the first condition is met, then the first statement is true. ^ if the second half of statement is false, then the first half of the statement is also false. P2: it does not give live birth. Capitalism is just, only if economic rewards correspond to positive social contributions. ^^if the rewards correspond (second part of the if then statement is false), then the first part if just is also false. It"s an airplane or a flying saucer.