Card Set Information
Emotions of situation
Character of speaker
Reasoning in the persuasion
Property of propositins or statements. One says it is true if it is the case and if not the case it is false
Valid if and only if the premises are true and must lead to conclusion to be true
Valid and premises are actually true in reality
Properties of an argument
Validity truth and soundness
Features of deductive argument
Syllogisms. Set of propositions and conclusion
Property of arguement that supports the good arguement which makes it valid not true.
Major premis, minor premis, and conclusion
Contains middle and major term and quantifier (all, no, some) or conditional (either or, if then, when)
Contains minor and major terms. Points to one thing person or instance
Contains minor and major premis. Something that is being proved.
Types of syllogisms
Categorical (all, every, no), disjunctive (either or), hypothetical (if then, when, in case of).
No certainty, specific to general, like the $2 bottle of wine
Like a sylligism but fails to include one of the three parts.
A decorative statement whichbis either true or false. Simple propsitions have subject and a predicate.
When truth table reveals all truth values
When truth table reveals not All truth values
T if only both or more are T. Conjunction~and
P u Q
T only if a T is present. Disjunction~or
T unless the horse is dancin the tuti fruti cause he cant. Implication~if, then.
T only when P and Q are the same. Equivalence.
Membership : Venn Diagram
a is apart of a circle, b is apart of a circle, and c is apart of a circle.
Containment : Venn Diagram
All A is B but not all B is A
Negation : Venn Diagram
Yellow = negation
Intersection : Venn Diagram
all blue is intersection
Union : Venn Diagram
all A and B and intersection of the two
T - true as F- false; the relation of proposition to truth.
If and only if...truth table
equivalence, or If P and Q are the same then T
if, then....truth table
the horse can't dance the tuti fruti, implication
~P, or not P means the opposite of P
the v, disjunction, T if a T is present
all have to be T to be T; conjunction
Affirming the antecedent where ((P->Q)^P)->Q
Basic kinds of induction aruements
Generalization, analogy, causality
one or more examples to general case.
(i.e. that cat has fur, that cat has fur, ...., all cats have fur.)
one specific case to another specific case A<----->C
makes or produces another thing....cause to affect or affect to cause, usually involves a generalization about the unknown occurrence to the known occurrence.