Philosophy 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Capitalization

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1200
• Professor: Eric Desjardins

Document Summary

Welcome to lecture #9! (cid:73) review (cid:73) some of chapter 4. Review: reconstructing arguments (cid:73) standard form: (cid:73) p1: blahblahblah (cid:73) p2: blahblahblah (cid:73) mp3: blahblahblah (cid:73) (cid:73) c: conclusion (cid:73) the premises can be in any order, but the conclusion comes last (cid:73) premises are numbered. Premises that are explicitly stated are labeled p . Premises that are missing in the text are labeled. Mp . (cid:73) the conclusion is labeled c if explicitly stated, mc otherwise. (cid:73) if there are intermediary conclusions, they are labeled ic1 , No need to add m for missing intermediary conclusions. Note that hughes and lavery use p for intermediary conclusions. Explanation (cid:73) explanations and argument can look identical: (cid:73) when politicians are perceived as corrupt, they tend to lose votes. If so, it might well not be an argument but an explanation of the apparent conclusion. Diagramming arguments (cid:73) diagrams can help understand the structure of an argument.