[PHIL 110] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (80 pages long!)
30 Mar 2017
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Logic: the formal/ systematic study of good reasoning or argument. Conclusion: the one that is intended to be supported. Premises: the one that are intended to be supporting. Statement/proposition: which is expressed by a declarative sentence. It has a truth value, whether or not we know that what it is. Truth value: the property of being true or of being false. Reasoning: carrying out one"s deliberations in a way that can be represent as an argument. Good reasoning: representable as an argument whose conclusion, if it is premises are true. Inductively strong argument: is not valid, but its premises, if true, would provide some degree of support for the truth of it conclusion. Dr mc"s philosophy 110 (1171) part notes, week 2#1 . One in which it is not possible for all the premises to be true yet the conclusion false. Validity is a matter not of the content of an argument, but of its formal, structural pattern.
