PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Modus Tollens, Modus Ponens, Nicomachean Ethics
4 Apr 2016
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Often in arguments premises that seem obvious are left out for reasons of brevity and style. It is okay to have implicit (unstated) premises as long as: those who are given the argument can easily supply these unstated premises for themselves, the unstated premises are themselves uncontroversial. You shouldn"t buy pornography because it leads to violence against women. A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live. Eighteen year olds are old enough to vote and go to war so they should be old enough to drink. The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not expressly permit it forbids. Sometimes premises are implicit because they are controversial. Keeping families healthy should be our highest priority so same- sex marriage should be illegal. The rcmp doesn"t have a very serious focus on stopping terrorism. A major terrorist attack will happen in this country.
