PHIL 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The New York Times, Jagmeet Singh, False Premise
22 Nov 2017
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Factual standpoint when to accept or reject premises. There are three attitudes we can take to the truth of a claim: accept it as true (we believe it, reject it as false (not worthy of our belief, suspend judgment. Don"t just do it for the hell of it. You legitimately suspend judgement when you don"t have sufficient reason to accept it or reject it. Maybe this is because you don"t know: the population of ottawa is approximately 883,000 , don"t really know so you"d suspend judgement. Maybe it"s because nobody knows: donald trump wins the 2016 federal election in the usa , jagmeet singh wins the next federal election in canada. Each claim (premise) in an argument can be evaluated on its own. P1: einstein claimed that the speed of light is a constant einstein proved it; true. P2: the str is foundational to contemporary physics. P3: some contemporary physicists believe that the speed of light is not a constant.
