A forum for discussion and clarification of philosophical issues relevant to class.
January 19, 2007
Logic package
Class, follow this link to get the full logic package. Remember, your assignment is to e-mail me, print out all the exercises starting on page 14, and actually complete the exercises on pages 14 through 16. See you next week.
Yes, the homework exercises are those that ask you to separate the premises from the conclusions of the arguments proposed (according to the graphic model we used in class, with premises leading vertically down to the conclusion).
I was just reading over the logic packet you gave us and on page 2 it says that every arguement must have 3 parts, and I was just wondering if the 2 premises work together which one should we consider major/minor or should we just consider the arguement to have 2 parts?
That is a very good question, Helen. Most simple arguments are made up of at least three parts: 2 premises leading down to 1 conclusion. In some cases, however, what happens is that one part is tacitly understood: it's not actually stated in the argument, but it is implied. If you are diagramming an argument like that, you would actually write out the implied proposition and number it, just like you do with the propositions explicitly stated in a garden variety argument. Hope that helps.
I am going to refer to myself as Benny to eliminate the confusion with the other Mike. I dont think that you, Robert, actually answered which should be the major and the minor premesis
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Yes, the homework exercises are those that ask you to separate the premises from the conclusions of the arguments proposed (according to the graphic model we used in class, with premises leading vertically down to the conclusion).
I was just reading over the logic packet you gave us and on page 2 it says that every arguement must have 3 parts, and I was just wondering if the 2 premises work together which one should we consider major/minor or should we just consider the arguement to have 2 parts?
That is a very good question, Helen. Most simple arguments are made up of at least three parts: 2 premises leading down to 1 conclusion. In some cases, however, what happens is that one part is tacitly understood: it's not actually stated in the argument, but it is implied.
If you are diagramming an argument like that, you would actually write out the implied proposition and number it, just like you do with the propositions explicitly stated in a garden variety argument.
Hope that helps.
I am going to refer to myself as Benny to eliminate the confusion with the other Mike.
I dont think that you, Robert, actually answered which should be the major and the minor premesis
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