PHILOS 2CT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Tutorial: Modus Ponens, Formal Fallacy, Intelligent Designer
6 Mar 2018
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Bivalence: pick one (ex true or false) Excluded middle: pick only one (you"re either wearing a hat or you"re not wearing a hate) Logical operators: conjunction and , disjunction or , conditional if . then , bi-conditional if and only if , negation not the case . Simple: cannot be broken down into other parts. Complex: usually has a logical operator and can be broken down into different parts. If p then q: p = the antecedent sufficient condition (at the very least, q = the consequent the necessary condition (it is always the consequent that is the necessary condition) Logical operators: ways that we can combine our claims. We can fit these claims together to try to get someone to believe another claim. Truth: when form is valid, you cannot get a false conclusion from a valid deductive argument with true premises.
