PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Modus Ponens, Thrasymachus, Logical Form

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Laura Byrne

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2016-03-15 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) If you live in montreal, then you live in quebec. If starbuck is a cylon, then she is not human. Statements of this form are called conditional statements or conditionals (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Match the name of the valid argument form to the argument to which it refers. (one mark) (cid:1) (cid:1) Modus ponens ____1________: if you are a student of phi 1101, then you are studying applied logic. Therefore, you are studying applied logic. (cid:1: either you are a lover or you are a fighter. Therefore, you are a fighter. (cid:1: if she is tired, then she must have gone to bed late. Therefore, she is not tired . (cid:1) (cid:1) Therefore, you like cake. (cid:1: all philosophers have nine lives. Therefore, socrates has nine lives. (cid:1: if you are studying philosophy, then you are very intelligent.