PHIL 130g Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Material Conditional, Ais People, Solipsism
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It is a complex claim, specifically a conjunction. Both conjuncts are true, so the whole conjunction is true. If i am batman, then i am antisocial. P q: is that sentence true? (if p then q) The antecedent is false, so it doesn"t matter whether the consequent is true or false; in either case, the conditional is true. The only time a material conditional is false is when we start with truth in the antecedent and lose it crossing the then" line. If she does go the store and does buy pomegranates, or she doesn"t go the store at all, she keeps her promise. Logic, part 2: arguments: intro to arguments, in philosophy, we are less interested in whether you believe something than in what your reasons for believing it are. We are interested in arguments: consider a view, solipsism, according to which only one person exists.
