PHIL 210 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Deductive Reasoning, Temporality, Modus Tollens
4 Jun 2020
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Chapter 1 the parts of public thinking deductive argument. All this to say logic is not monolithic. There are uses for the word logic that can cause confusion, if they are run together in the technical sense. Used casually as loose synonym for sensible or plausible . Not only applied to inferences but to people and their choices. Fallacious argument: bad argument: if a chair has 3 legs so it was poorly balanced, would it be a chair, yes, its not a good chair, but we might say it"s a lousy chair. But still a chair: what if it had 2 legs, a whole in the middle and no back rest, would it be a chair, we might say it"s a broken chair, or maybe not a chair anymore. So what isn"t an argument: the term argue sometimes includes; assertions, insisting, repeating, declaiming, vowing, defining, stipulating, these aren"t argument.
