PHIL 210 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Implicature, Deductive Reasoning, Soundness
4 Jun 2020
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Chapter 1 the parts of public thinking deductive argument. : soundness is a sufficient condition for an argument to be valid. (is its sound, its automatically valid: ex: being mammal is a sufficient condition to be warm-bodied. (all mammals are warm bodied) Truth conditions of compound sentences: simple (or atomic) statements: sentence that doesn"t contain another sentence as one of its parts. Ex: my dog has fleas: conjunctive statements or conjunction: 2 or more sub-statements, joined by words and or. A conjuntive statement is true only is both conjuctions are true. Meaning: statement in form of p and q is only true is both p and q are both true, disjunctive satetment, or disjunction: statement in form of p or q . If the or is used exclusively: is true if and only if one of p or q is true: ex: fish or cut the bait .
