PSCI 2701 Lecture Notes - Syllogism, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Slippery Slope
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Class 2 to be combined with teachers notes on culearn. Person making argument is making a link between evidence and something more general: conclusion can be reasoned out of the link. Therefore she is an actress: group of women, there is a subgroup of women actresses. When it"s raining, the road is wet. Need to have something to do with argument/conclusion someone is making. When you aren"t sure, ask about conclusion. He is wrong in his policy recommendations. , because he was wrong in his previous ones: wrong in previous ones is evidence. First part is minor premise: major premise is link between evidence you have linked to general. No major premise: major premise is that if someone is wrong in the past, you are wrong in the future. All of these know something might not be true but that there still might be a link. Can"t have two different things that produce the same outcome.