PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Co-Premise, Deductive Reasoning, 1978 Atlantic Hurricane Season
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An argument is a set of claims in which at least one of the claims is put forth to support at least one of the other claims. Supporting claims are called premises; the claims being supported are called conclusions. We"ve narrowed our list of suspects to smith and jones. We"ve learned, however, that smith was out of the country when the murder occurred, so it couldn"t have been him. The above is an argument because there is a relationship of support between its claims. Its conclusion is that jones is the killer. That conclusion is derived from its premises, which are that the killer was either smith or jones and that it wasn"t smith. Schematically, it looks like this: (1) the killer was either jones or smith (2) the killer wasn"t smith. (3) therefore, the killer was jones. The nfl is poised to kick off its 2017 season. England patriots look primed for another championship run.
