MODR 1770 Study Guide - Syntactic Ambiguity, Informal Logic, Amphibole
11 Mar 2014
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Two types of reasoning: inductive logic informal logic, critical reasoning; strong to weak continuum, deductive logic formal logic; invalid, valid but/and sound. Support: p support c when, if p"s are acceptable, there is a good reason to think c is true. Entailment: p entail c when, if p are true, the c must be true. Validity: if argument is deductively valid, then c must be true if p are true. Sound argument: deductively valid argument w true p. Euphemisms: func to substitute harsh terms with milder ones; e. g for breaking up w someone its me not you . Vague: term/phrase that have no precise meaning; forces audience to allocate meaning; leads to miscommunication. Ambiguous: term/phrase that have more than one meaning. Semantic ambiguity: words have more than one meaning; used in puns or controversial topics. Equivocation and verbal disputes: ambiguous lang. used and not clarified; 2 or more meaning are conflated.
