SSH 105 Lecture 3: Sufficient Reasons Part 1
5 Feb 2018
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Whenever we have reasons for our beliefs, we can organize them into an argument. In this chapter, we will study some methods for organizing our reasons into an argument and then for telling whether the arguments are good. If no: it is probably not an argument. We ought to build a bridge across the river, because doing that is the best way to solve the traffic problems . We ought to build a bridge across the river. We should limit the car that go on it and fix the park also . Given that: this entails that, it follows that, we may conclude that , so, inasmuch as, for the reason that, the therefore" test. If there are no indicators, you could try inserting one between the assertions to see which makes the most sense. It would be too expensive (1) we should not build a bridge (2) building a bridge would be too expensive.
