The Language of Argument
1 0 3 th e M e t h o d o f R e c o n s t r u c t i o n each conclusion, listing the premises from which that conclusion follows. ...
1 0 4 cH A Pt eR 5 ■ D e e p A n a l y s i s Not all arguments are serious or good. The following silly argument comes from a fa ...
1 0 5 An Example of Reconstruction: Capital Punishment An eXAMPLe oF ReconstRUction: cAPitAL PUnisHMent We can illustrate the me ...
1 0 6 cH A Pt eR 5 ■ D e e p A n a l y s i s The first premise—“The death penalty is a cruel and unusual punish- ment”—obviously ...
1 0 7 A n ex a m p l e o f R e c o n s t r u c t i o n : ca p i t a l P u n i s h m e n t We can then restate this supporting ar ...
1 0 8 cH A Pt eR 5 ■ D e e p A n a l y s i s it is not the death penalty itself that is unusual or unfair in the relevant sense ...
1 0 9 A n ex a m p l e o f R e c o n s t r u c t i o n : ca p i t a l P u n i s h m e n t “I’m glad you dropped by, Tom,” said W ...
1 1 0 cH A Pt eR 5 ■ D e e p A n a l y s i s notes (^1) CQ Transcripts Wire, Tuesday, October 9, 2007, washingtonpost.com. (^2) ...
1 1 1 II H o w t o E v a l u a t e A r g u m e n t s : D e d u c t i v e S t a n d a r d s After isolating, laying out, and fill ...
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1 1 3 6 Propositional Logic This chapter begins our investigation of evaluating arguments by means of formal deductive logic. Th ...
1 1 4 C H A P T E R 6 ■ P r o p o s i t i o n a l L o g i c There is, however, good reason for dealing with simple—trivially sim ...
1 1 5 B a s i c P r o p o s i t i o n a l C o n n e c t i v e s entire proposition. This may sound complicated, but an example w ...
1 1 6 C H A P T E R 6 ■ P r o p o s i t i o n a l L o g i c Thus, “John is tall and Harry is short” and “Roses are red and viole ...
1 1 7 B a s i c P r o p o s i t i o n a l C o n n e c t i v e s parentheses to group propositions. This last example could be tr ...
1 1 8 C H A P T E R 6 ■ P r o p o s i t i o n a l L o g i c The proposition “The night is young, and you’re so beautiful” is a s ...
1 1 9 B a s i c P r o p o s i t i o n a l C o n n e c t i v e s Now we can look at an argument involving conjunction. Here is on ...
1 2 0 C H A P T E R 6 ■ P r o p o s i t i o n a l L o g i c The first two columns give all the combinations for the truth values ...
1 2 1 B a s i c P r o p o s i t i o n a l C o n n e c t i v e s matter of logical form. There are, in fact, some obviously valid ...
1 2 2 C H A P T E R 6 ■ P r o p o s i t i o n a l L o g i c Disjunction Just as we can form a conjunction of two propositions by ...
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