ICT 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Logical Form

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Information Communication Technology
• Course: ICT 205
• Professor: Bryce Newell

Document Summary

Conceptual clarity: we must be conceptually clear about important issues and terms. Ex: person, property right, bootlegging, piracy, etc. Empirical information: we cannot answer moral, political, and policy questions without marshaling knowledge about the real world. Ex: does file sharing cause more harm than good. Rationality: we must use valid/strong argument forms and proceed from reliable premises. Impartiality: in striving to reach the correct answer to moral, political, and policy questions we must guard against extreme partiality- our moral, political, and policy judgments should be free from bigotry, prejudice, and favoritism. Reflective endorsement: our moral, political, and policy judgments should stand the test of cool and calm reflective endorsement. Correct moral principles: it is also essential that the judgment be based on the correct or most reasonable moral principles. An argument where the conclusion is conclusively supported by the premises.