PHIL 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Freddie Mercury, Gros Michel Banana, Critical Thinking

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2020
• Professor: Sean Meslar

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Diagnosing compound arguments: an economic system is communist if and only if the means of production are common property. There has never been an economic system in which the means of production have been common property, so there has never been a communist economic system. The soviet union claimed to be communist, but the means of production of the soviet union were not common property: p1 and p2 linked to support c1. Argument is simple, linked: all humans are mammals, all mammals are vertebrates and all vertebrates are animals. Mercury is a human, so freddie mercury is a mammal. Since freddie mercury is a mammal, he is a vertebrate. Since he is a vertebrate, he is an animal: , and since.