PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Propositional Calculus, Formal Grammar, Qi

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Alexander Liepins

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Philosophy | phi1101 (h) | tuesday sept 13. Office hour: mondays 9:00 10:00 in dms 8120. Office hour: thursdays 12:00 13:30 in dms 8129. A set of claims or statements whose aim is to convincingly justify another claim or statement. A set of claims. (cid:498)on wednesday(cid:495)s we wear pink(cid:499) example: (cid:885) claims of the argument. An argument tries to make a convincing case for a claim, which is the conclusion. The supporting reasons that serve to justify the conclusion are the premises. In critical thinking and reasoning, an inference describes the activity of deriving. The main ingredients of steam whistle are spring water, malted barley, hops, and yeast. The illusion of an argument vs. an actual argument. Iron man is cooler than thor because technology is way more interesting than mythology. Belief in god entails the idea that he created a universe governed by the necessity of natural laws.