PHIL 125 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 1-4: Decision Matrix, Migraine, Intellectual Disability
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An example and some preliminaries: coffee study. More coffee you drink, the longer you live. is a bad headline because this study is about risk of early death, not lifespan: reasons and reasoning. A reason to believe p is a consideration that provides evidence that p is true: theoretical reason: reason is theoretical reason just in case the truth or. The science is clear (the theoretical reasoning), what"s unclear is for people who hold different values shall do with it (the practical reasoning): some greek words. Pathos: appeal the emotion of the audience: if there are scientific methods that undergird our trust in. Science, then: they involve at least two things, methods of acquiring reliable data, methods of inferring reliably from that data to larger theoretical trusts. Maybe all swans are white but that"s not an inference: karl popper and falsificationism,1. Invalid: the 150 swans we have observed are white, all swans are white.
