PHL 214 Lecture 10: Critical Thinking
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Relevance: a premise is irrelevant to a conclusion if and only if its truth counts neither for nor against the conclusion; otherwise it is relevent. But that doesn"t show anything, since the: marcus" solution to global warming is clearly false. After all, it came to: we should reject that proposal for solving the current welfare mess. It follows that her concerns about excessive consumerism are just so much rubbish: ryerson students study many different subjects, including statistics and hotel management. John goes to ryerson, therefore john must study many different subjects, including statistics and hotel management. Jane"s sweater is blue, so it follows that each thread of her sweater: harper says he won"t change the gun laws. So you shouldn"t: the point is that many claims about the speaker"s deterrent against murder. But these people are not interested in deterrence at all.