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Differences between valid and strong arguments

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  • with a valid argument no new information could make any difference to the relation between premises and conclusion but with a strong argument new information could make a difference
  • valid is deductive
  • strong is inductive
2
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What happens if a premise is contradictory?

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-Valid but not sound

3
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Which fallacy’s are valid? Why?

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All unacceptable premises

All irrelevant premises if they are in a valid form

4
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Name the irrelevant premises.

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CG REDS
Genetic fallacy
Composition 
Division
Equivocation 
Red Herring
Straw man
T-PIPE
Appeal to:
Person
Popularity
Tradition
Ignorance
Emotion
5
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Name unacceptable premises.

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BFF SH
Begging the question
False dilemma
Slippery slope
Hasty generalization
Faulty analogy
6
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Do a question on fallacies

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1.

7
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Do a question on Deductive/ Inductive.

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1.

8
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What is categorical Logic?

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A form of logic whose focus is categorical statements, which make assertions about categories or classes of things

9
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What are categorical statement

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A statement or claim that makes a simple assertion about categories or classes of things

10
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What’s a subject term?

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The first class or group named in standard form categorical statement

11
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What is a predicate term?

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The second class or group named in a standard form categorical statement

12
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What is a standard form categorical statement and what are the forms?

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In categorical logic, a categorical statement that takes the form of one of these forms:

  1. All S and P
  2. No S are P
  3. Some S are P
  4. Some S are not P
13
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What lets and names go with the standard form categorical statement?

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A: All S are P (Universal affirmative)
E: No S are P (Universal negative)
I: Some S are P (Particular affirmative)
O: Some S are not P (Particular negative)

14
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What are singular statements?

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In categorical logic, statements that assert something about a single person or thing, including objects, places and times

15
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Give an example of Turing a singular statement to a categorical statement?

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Anything that turns a statement into an All S is P or something like that.

Chris Rock is a comedian
To
All people identical to Christ Rock are comedians

16
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Diagram and argument from a book.

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1.

17
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Do a Venn Diagram from the book.

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1.

18
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What are the Venn diagrams for each categorical statement? Why?

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A: shade all of S (can’t possibly be any just S)
E: Shade all of the middle (Can’t possible be both S and P)
I: Put an X in the middle (Some of the S is also P)
O: Put an X on the S (Some of the S is not P)