Philosophy: introduction to logic Claim: Treat others only as you consent to being treated in the same situation.

INTERPRETATION

a) What is the form of the claim?

b)Does anything need to be clarified?

c) What kind of claim is this claim?

d) If you can, identify some necessary conditions of the claim that are false or debatable.

EVALUATION

e) Use your understanding of its nature to construct ss many realistic counterexamples as possible.

f) Estimate the combined probability of those counterexamples. Justify your estimation.

g) Use that estimation to calculate the inverse probability of the claim.

WHAT IS THE BEST OPPOSING VIEW TO YOUR EVALUATION of the claim?

h) How could a reasonable author of the claim respond to your criticism ? use your counter examples to charitably reconstruct the claim in a way that blocks all your counterexamples.