PP201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-8: Universal Generalization, Fallacy, Hasty Generalization
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Weak analogy: does not give much reason to think conclusion is true, has small. Fallacies of analogies: bad arguments that make use of comparisons or analogies. Fallacy of slippery assimilation: occurs when someone ignores the fact that many insigni cant differences can add up to a signi cant one. Negative analogy arguments: argument appeals to differences instead. Arguments from experience premise supporting a conclusion about all members of that class members of a class to a single unexperienced object of that kind. Assumption underlying these arguments: the future will resemble the past. Statistical generalization: uses knowledge about prevalence or proportion of: elements of statistical generalization include: Target property: property being extended from sample to population. Similarity: says the sample is representative of the population. A and b, in which case a neither causes b nor is caused by b: in the case of any correlation, the correlation might be a coincidence.
