Forms Of Arguments
some stuff
Abortion
Relativism
Some more relativism
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P->Q; P; Q
What is Affirming the Antecedent. MODUS PONENS
100
P or Q; P; ~Q
What is Affirming the Disjunct
100
What is the basic argument against abortion
What is The right to life vs. the right to your body
100
There is no truth
What is Relativism
100
What is the test of self reference, and what does this test prove of relativism and logical positivism?
What is It is true that there is no truth. If the argument can't survive its own criteria then its wrong
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P or Q; ~P; ~Q
What is Denying the Consequent. MODUS TOLLENS
200
A is bigger the B; B is bigger than C; therefore A is bigger than C
What is Hypothetical
200
What are arguments that the fetus is not a person?
What is Some people believe that a fetus isn't a human until it a brain waves and a heart beat.
200
NO truth concerning right or wrong actions
What is Moral Relativism
200
Just because a large group of people say one thing is right, doesn’t mean it’s actually right
What is the ad populum fallacy
300
P or Q; ~P; Q
What is Denying the Disjunct
300
Affirming the Disjunct is sometimes _____ or _____. What decides?
What is Invalid and Valid; Inclusive "OR" is invalid and Exclusive "OR" is valid
300
What is the all babies want to be born argument?
What is If you made a law that every fourth person that walks into the room is shot in the head, no one will pass it because no one wants this to be done to themselves.
300
Ther is nothing that makes one culture better than the other
What is Cultural Relativism
300
Does the fact that ad populum arguments are fallacies shed any light on relativism?
What is It shows that the argument against relativism isn't enough
400
P-> Q; Q; P
What is Affirming the Consequent
400
There must be extraterrestrial life. No one has proven there isn't.
What is Appeal to ignorance
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What is the "every new beginning argument comes from some other beginning's end" argument?
What is If someone argues that an acorn is not a tree, but at some point an acorn does becomes a tree
400
Things that are right or wrong depend on how it makes you feel
What is emotivism
400
What is a valid argument?
What is A valid argument is an argument in which the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises
500
P->Q; ~P; ~Q
What is Denying the antecedent
500
What is the fallacy that is inferring a casual link between two events when no such causal connection has been established
What is False Cause; POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC
500
What is the "normal and natural vs. extraordinary and artificial" objection to the Thomson's argument?
What is The violinist argument shows that pregnancy is natural, but being connected to the violinist is artificial.
500
The only things that have truth are those things that can be empirically proven
What is Logical Positivism
500
What is a sound argument
What is a sound argument is an argument in which the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises, and the premises are true, thus making the conclusion necessarily true.
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