PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Ken Dryden

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

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More examples: a: all pornography demeans women. Its generally considered pornographic, but it doesn"t demean women. A: then fanny hill is not pornography, because pornography always involves demeaning women. Note that person a here rules out an apparent counterexample to his claim, and thus alters the ordinary meaning of the word to make demeans women a necessary feature of pornography. More examples: x: americans are in love with cars and have no interests in developing public transit. Y: well, i am an american and i think that the development of public transit is a good idea. X: clearly, you are not a real american. The fallacy called exception that proves the a simply dismissing rule consists counterexample. in. It is important to note that the word prove means test . Example: a sign that says parking prohibited on sundays (the exception) proves that parking is allowed on the other six days of the week (the rule).