The Language of Argument
2 2 3 S u f f i c i e n t C o n d i t i o n s a n d N e c e s s a r y C o n d i t i o n s Imagine that your desktop computer sys ...
2 2 4 C H A P T E R 1 0 ■ C a u s a l R e a s o n i n g Plug CPU Monitor Software Result Case 1 ln Old CPU Old MO ...
2 2 5 S u f f i c i e n t C o n d i t i o n s a n d N e c e s s a r y C o n d i t i o n s Rigorous Testing Going back to Table 1 ...
2 2 6 C H A P T E R 1 0 ■ C a u s a l R e a s o n i n g Table 5 Case 1: A B C D ~G Case 2: ~A B C D ~G Case 3: A ~B C ~D ~G Beca ...
2 2 7 S u f f i c i e n t C o n d i t i o n s a n d N e c e s s a r y C o n d i t i o n s The target, G, must also be present in ...
2 2 8 C H A P T E R 1 0 ■ C a u s a l R e a s o n i n g Nonetheless, if our background assumptions are justified, the fact that ...
2 2 9 A p p l y i n g T h e s e M e t h o d s t o fi n d C a u s e s These reflections suggest the following contextualized rest ...
2 3 0 C H A P T E R 1 0 ■ C a u s a l R e a s o n i n g other animals, along with the rest of biology and science. It is not cle ...
2 3 1 A p p l y i n g T h e s e M e t h o d s t o fi n d C a u s e s find out what was unique about the people who became ill: w ...
2 3 2 C H A P T E R 1 0 ■ C a u s a l R e a s o n i n g Bellevue-Stratford and being susceptible to the disease could not be rul ...
2 3 3 A p p l y i n g T h e s e M e t h o d s t o fi n d C a u s e s check for bacteria that cause pneumonia-like diseases, and ...
2 3 4 C H A P T E R 1 0 ■ C a u s a l R e a s o n i n g Concomitant Variation The use of the sufficient condition test and the n ...
2 3 5 C o n c o m i t a n t V a r i a t i o n test for a necessary condition only if we can find cases in which the feature does ...
2 3 6 C H A P T E R 1 0 ■ C a u s a l R e a s o n i n g and, just as obviously, writing well should not give you big feet. The c ...
2 3 7 C o n c o m i t a n t V a r i a t i o n the hypothesis that B does not cause A. Together these manipulations can reduce th ...
2 3 8 C H A P T E R 1 0 ■ C a u s a l R e a s o n i n g NOTES (^1) Mill’s “methods of experimental inquiry” are found in book 3, ...
2 3 9 11 Chances The kinds of arguments discussed in the preceding three chapters are inductive, so they need not meet the deduc ...
2 4 0 C HaP Te r 1 1 ■ C h a n c e s assume that they are due for a run of good luck to even things out. Gambling systems are so ...
2 4 1 S o m e F a l l a c i e s o f P r o b a b i l i t y we can go back to flipping coins. Toss a coin until it comes up heads ...
2 4 2 C HaP Te r 1 1 ■ C h a n c e s Th e av a i l a b i l iT y he uR i sT i c. Because sampling and taking surveys is costly, w ...
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