PHIL 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fallacy, Blurry, Condom
19 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Clear thinking in blurry word by tim kenyon. Therefore: it is not the case that q, scope, every person shops for clothing at one store (or another) in town, there is one (particular) store in town at which every person shops for clothing. Notice that (2) implies (1) but not vice versa; these are not the same claims: equivocation. Ex: condom use/expectation to become sexually active, p. 96. Argument disguises an invalid inference by using a single expression in two different ways: expect vs. To argue by switching between meanings in this way is to equivocate. Evidential fallacies: conclusion is not reasonably likely; fallacious evidential argument is logically unsound: argument from ignorance, we have no evidence that p. Therefore: it is not the case that p, conspiracy theories. Therefore: it is not the case that p, appeal to popular opinion. Simplest form is post hoc ergo propter hoc (after, therefore, because); over attribution of causal connections: multiple endpoints.
