PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Moral Agency, Determinism
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Truth of statement by appealing to evidence-(the support for the truth of the statement) Argument= an attempt to establish the truth of some statement by appealing to evidence. Premises= statements supporting the conclusion (stated before the conclusion is stated) Conclusion= statement to be proved; we want to establish this the truth of a statement. Validity= when the premises are true and the conclusion cannot be false ex-all r"s are b. Counter example= a statement/instance that disproves/falsi es the premise or argument and convincing/sound. Principle of charity= filling in missing charities and ne tuning their argument to make it valid. Third option: libertarianism- according to the libertarian, not all human action is causally necessitated or determined in every respect. Rather sometimes we are free/some actions are free. Not in sense of soft determinist, but in a robust sense. For soft determinist theres that one condition thats in place, where as in libertarian there are 2 conditions in place.
