Assertion: argument's claim | /r/HasProperty | true
Facets:
value: by definition
type: OTHER
value: necessarily
type: DEGREE
value: possibly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: If the factual claims are true, it is with the inferences that an argument will stand or fall, and it is here where you will find fallacies committed.
text: If the claim that human persons have a kind of intrinsic dignity or worth is a true objective principle and if it provides a key foundational principle of morality, it is well worth asking what kinds of metaphysical implications the claim might have.
text: The difference is in the intent: an argument attempts to settle whether or not some claim is true, and an explanation attempts to provide understanding of the event.
text: Keep in mind that it doesn’t matter whether the overall claims of the professor who is using the strawman are true or not (i.e. that if everyone got a perfect score for no reason, then students won’t work hard in the future).
text: It’s the purpose of an argument: to prove that your claim is true or that others’ claim is false.
text: An evidential reason is a foundation upon which to believe that or why a claim is true.
text: The proponent of the argument may well agree that claims about the special status of humans are true a priori, and thus also opt for some form of Platonism.
text: Bostrom claims his argument goes beyond the classical ancient "skeptical hypothesis", claiming that "...we have interesting empirical reasons to believe that a certain disjunctive claim about the world is true", the third of the three disjunctive propositions being that we are almost certainly living in a simulation.
text: That is, we can understand compatibilism and incompatibilism as claims that can’t both be true, but that can both be false.
text: Compatibilism and incompatibilism are both false if a third claim, impossibilism, is true.
text: A widely held misconception is that a claim in an essay must be true, if the reader is to buy into your argument.
text: For example, one can figure out without empirical investigation that the following claim is true: if Socrates is mortal, then either Socrates is mortal or Socrates is fat.
text: While we believe the latter claim to be true, reason alone does not justify this belief.
text: Suppose that we agree to think about possibility and necessity in terms of possible worlds: a claim is possibly true just in case it is true in at least one possible world; a claim is necessarily true just in case it is true in every possible world; and a claim is contingent just in case it is true in some possible worlds and false in others.
text: Suppose that we agree to think about possibility and necessity in terms of possible worlds: a claim is possibly true just in case it is true in at least one possible world; a claim is necessarily true just in case it is true in every possible world; and a claim is contingent just in case it is true in some possible worlds and false in others.
text: Mathematics would be the prime example: mathematics is tautological and its claims are true by definition, yet we can develop new mathematical conceptions and theorems.