PHIL 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Genetic Fallacy, Fire Marshal, Wishful Thinking
5 Feb 2015
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Condition that without which the effects may not occur. Remove it, and you remove the effect a is necessary for b= b can"t occur without a. A is sufficient (enough ) for b= if a occurs, then b occurs o= oily rags f=fire event. A fire destroys a garage, fire marshal says the oily rags caused the fire. Other things could"ve caused the fire (lightening, arsen ) Oily rag is sufficient in circumstance for fire to occur, but need other things. Oxygen is in all the events, but it is not said because it is a common thing. Insufficient, yet necessary part of a set of conditions , which are unnecessary but sufficient in the circumstances. There"s a reason why it occurred, everything happens for a reason. Things that happen with probability of 0 or 1 ,no in between. Mechanism or process= a network of causal processes.
