SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Slippery Slope, False Dilemma, Hasty Generalization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Science and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: All

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Normative: a definition is too narrow if it excludes things that it should not, eg, a student is someone enrolled at a university. Doesn"t include highschool, college, etc: a definition is too broad if it includes things that it should not, eg, a computer is an electronic device with a scrieen. Some common mistakes in reasoning (fallacies: the fallacy of false dichotomy, the fallacy of equivocation, the slippery slope fallacy: occurs when an argument claims that taking a particular step will inevitably lead to a further, undesirable step. Eg, all caf food is bad because i had a burger there and it made me sick: the fallacy of begging the question: attempting to prove a conclusion by using that same conclusion as a prenise. We know that god exists because the bible says so and we know that god wrote the bible.