PHL 204 Study Guide - Final Guide: Formal Methods, Formal Language, John Rawls
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Phl 204- medical ethics exam one study guide: what is, specifically, logic the study of, logic is the study of good reasoning. It is not the study of how reasoning actually occurs, because people often reason badly. A: what is cogency? each interference rule, valid argument patterns, an argument is valid if all the premises are true, then the conclusion must, a sound argument is one that is valid and all of its conclusions and. An argument is inductively strong if the probability of the conclusion is high. A: what is a counterexample, a counterexample is a possible condition in which one gives and example that illustrates that the conclusion does not necessarily follow on the assumption that all the premises are true. A counterexample shows that an argument is invalid: what does the word ethics mean and its relation to teleology, ethics derived from the greek ethos meaning disposition or trait.