PHI 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-10: Basement Apartment, Correspondence Theory Of Truth, Fallacy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Iva Apostolova

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Produce a set of arguments that represents the actual argument the author intended to present: the premises, the conclusion, and the relationship between premises and conclusion. Phase 1: identify the premises and the conclusion of the argument. Phase 2: identify the structure of the argument. Conclusion = underline, label c. premises = brackets, label p1, p2, p3, etc. Eg: (p) doug"s birthday"s tomorrow. (c) therefore, bob should by him a present. (mp2) bob is. Passages that contain arguments but are not arguments themselves. Eg: john refuses to vote in elections because he believes that all politicians are dishonest: not an argument: simply tells us that john reasons in a certain way. Explanations: attempt to show how or why something happens when there is little reason to doubt the truth of conclusion. Many are causal (explain a reference to its causes); some are non-causal.