PHIL 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Logical Consequence, Fallacy
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Social exchanges between 2 or more parties in which premisses are offered in favour of a conclusion according to the given set of rules or standards. Public, multi-person exchanges of comment and counter-comment. Quarrels, legislative debates, diplomatic wrangles, labour negotiations, mathematical proofs, legal briefs, etc . Are governed by a set of rules or standards, although in many contexts these may be given only implicitly. (rules vary from context to context). Involve the offering of evidence, or premises, in favour of some claim or conclusion. Involve the drawing or the denying of that conclusion. Sequences of propositions, one of which is the argument"s conclusion, the rest of which are the argument"s premisses. The narrow sense of argument filters out agency and time, concentrating solely on how an argument"s premisses and conclusions are related. At the core of every argument in the broad sense, is an argument in the narrow sense.
