Back to Week 8
Lecturer: Dr Mary Coupland
-Principle of parsimony
-Arguments from consequences
-Proposition
-Premiss or Premise
Formal Fallacy
-Circular reasoning
-Ad Hominem
-Antecedent
-Refute
Two leading questions involving the evaluation of arguments are as below.
1. Do the premisses support the conclusion?
2. Are all the premises true?
Relevant and useful links
Analysing arguments Categorical Propositions Informal fallacies Valid & Invalid Arguments Logical fallacies [examples] Fallacies of Language Language arguments Formal and Informal Fallacies Arguments, Premises, and Conclusions Argument terms and Fallacies Formal Fallacies Validity & Soundness [Philosophical Writing] Making sense of Arguments