MODR 1711- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 47 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Modes Of Reasoning
• Course: MODR 1711
• Professor: Vanessa Lehan- Streisel

Document Summary

Common fallacies: a fallacy is any error in reasoning. 5. 1a subjectivism: the fallacy of subjectivism is committed whenever we hold that something is true merely because we believe or want it to be true. In the form: the majority believe p => p is true: the fallacy of appeal to majority is committed whenever someone takes a proposition to be true merely because large number of people believe it. Fallacies involving credibility: we must weigh the credibility of person saying it. It seems more reasonable to presume a expert innocent until proven guilty. 5. 2b ad hominem: an ad hominem argument rejects or dismisses another person"s statement by attacking the person rather than the statement itself. 5. 3a false alternative: general form: either p or q + not -q => p, that is deductively form of an argument. It"s the source of many superstitions. is some stronger connection between a and b than just a temporal relationship.