PHIL 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fallacy, Syntactic Ambiguity
Document Summary
The first argument"s conclusion is a contingency while the second argument"s conclusion is a tautology. Since there is no counter-example for the second argument, it is valid but they are not related. Occurs when an argument depends inappropriately on a semantic ambiguity. Criminal actions are illegal, and all murder trials are criminal actions, thus all murder trials are illegal. Two different usages of criminal actions - ambiguous. The end of a thing is its perfection. Occurs when an argument depends inappropriately on a grammatical ambiguity. Thrifty people save old cardboard boxes and waste paper.
