PHI 1101 Lecture 1: Chapter 1

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Sardar Hosseini

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Non-human animals like dolphins or apes have the ability to reason at. Examples like solving problems, making decisions, predicting elections, (cid:1) making discoveries, interpreting works of art, repairing cars, involves reason. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) you are not aware of anything. It is too logical, mechanical, abstract, linear, inhuman. But, critical reasoning is something we do all the time, the question is. As an expert: being able to present your ideas in an ordered manner. As a non-expert: we can mitigate our vulnerability as being a non- Reasoning is the active and systematic process of analyzing, Statement (claim or proposition) is a claim that could either be true or. Ex: that water looks polluted! maurice smells bad the earth is. Premise is a claim that supports the conclusion (proof), is put forth as. Conclusion is a claim supported by the premises. Argument (premise + conclusion) is a set of claims (statements) in.