PHIL 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Hasty Generalization, Junk Food, Sample Size Determination

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 201
• Professor: All

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Simplest as in plain foods or there"s lots of things that he likes so it"s simple. Fallacy of equivocation when a word has one meaning in one premise and a different meaning in another premise or the conclusion. My friend cynthia should be prosecuted for giving blood to the canadian red cross. This is because it"s not legal to extract another person"s blood even if it"s to be donated to the canadian red cross. Appeal to popularity arguing that a claim is true merely because a substantial number of people believe it. The vast majority, if not all, of the prisoners are innocent. You only need to ask them to see that"s true. Appeal to common practice arguing from the fact that a certain action or mode of behaviour is common to the claim that is good or permissible. This is a special case of the appeal to popularity.