NATS 1860 Lecture Notes - Syntactic Ambiguity, Fallacy, Euphemism
4 Oct 2012
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The acceptability of criterion of a good argument premises that are vague, open to doubt, are not acceptable. Could occur by virtue of one word, combination of one of more, or by the entire sentence. (do not worry about amphiboly) False cause x y because there"s a causal relationship. Words get their meaning based on how we use language in our society. Two types of meaning: descriptive (denotative) it"s a literal meaning of the word, prescriptive (connotative). They are internal because of the values we attach to it. Euphemism: a substitute that is a nice way we can convey the massage instead of saying something mean. Fallacy of equivocation: occurs when a keyword in an argument has two or more meanings, and it changes the way of the argument, uses the substitution method (if the fallacy is equivocation, do this in your test). Step 6: you restate the premises, and then you look for equivalent synonyms and substitute them there.
