PHL 214 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Vagueness, Begging, Fallacy
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Chapter 5: premises- what to accept and why. A premise in an argument is acceptable if the arguer has already shown it to be acceptable by a cogent subargument. Evidence or reasons make it rational to accept that conclusion. The arguer may refer to someone else who has shown the premise to be reasonable. The standard way of indicating that a claim is supported else- where is by the use of footnotes. Among claims that can be known without further evidence or reasons are those that are known a priori to be true. Claims that are a priori are knowable from the first in the sense that they are knowable before experience, or independent of experience. The contrasting term a posteriori/empirical means from something that is posterior, or afterward and refers to claims that are knowable only after, or on the basis of, experience.
