SSH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Argument From Analogy, Hasty Generalization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 100
• Professor: David Hunter

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Jon is nice, his brother pat is like him. Form: (1) x has property p (2) y is just like x in all relevant respects so, (3) us is p too x an y are analogues (2) is the analogical premise. If conclusion is false then one premise has to be false. Both things have to have the same property if one is generous the other has to generous to. X is just like y in all relevant respects. A mistake when you use a false analogical premise. A)buying an education is just like buying a car. We"ve been three times, and each time it was terrible. Tonight won"t be any different. (1) the restaurant wont be good tonight (2) we"ve been three time, each time it was terrible (analogical premise) (3) tonight wont be any different (2) + (3) In some cases the analogies are thing of very same kind.