PHIL 1200H- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)

• School: Trent University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1200H
• Professor: Howes Moira

Document Summary

Review and overview: last day we introduced our first batch of fallacies, most of which were from chapter 5, but two of which, misuse of a vague expression, and ambiguity, were covered in. Today we will introduce our second batch of fallacies which will include all of the fallacies which appear in chapter 6 of your textbook. Your textbook bunches all of the fallacies together in chapter 6 under the heading insufficient evidence. " this is a misleading categorization. Many of the fallacies covered in this chapter have nothing especially to do with missing evidence, most notably loaded question, and. The ones which most obviously are fallacies of insufficient evidence, such as questionable cause, and hasty generalization, we are going to cover near the end of class today. Inappropriate appeal to authority: this fallacy is somewhat complicated since, as they note in the text, not all appeals to authority are illegitimate.