SSH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Slippery Slope

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

Document Summary

Causal claims don"t necessary need to use the word cause. When an argument has a false causal claim. If a comes after or at the same time a, then a cant be a cause for b. A is a necessary causal condition for b only if b cannot occur unless a did. i. e. , whatever is necessary for some effect must have been present every time the effect is present. A is a sufficient causal condition for b only if b always occurs after a does. i. e. , whatever is sufficient for some effect is always followed by that effect. C is not needed to get the effect. Its present in two cases but not to all.