PHIL 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: The Dilemma
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5-2 when premises are acceptable if the arguer has already shown it to be acceptable by a cogent sub-argument if the argument is supported in a cogent argument elsewhere, or by someone else. All squares have 4 sides : meaning from the rst a posterior- claims that are knowable only after, or on the basis of experience. 1 there are vast numbers of trees in brazil. 2 if anyone tried to count all the trees in brazil, it would be a very long time after starting that the last tree will be reached. 3 before a tree counter nished the counting task, some trees already counted would have died because of re or human destruction and new trees would be sprouting. 4 having a number of people count these trees would not avoid these problems of destruction and growth. 5 it is practically impossible to determine, by counting, exactly how many trees there are in brazil.
