I looked at the heading for this one and got worried. My fears were quelled as I found I understand what was being taught; others may not agree ;)

this is just the joke that everything in the world is either a salad or not a salad

thank you to freshman me for wanting to be a philosophy major instead of a polisci major

for all of the formal logic people out there, this is is a simple argument form if you break it down into p and q. it would look something like: if p then q (p ->q), p, therefore q. this works because if the first half of a conditional statement is true (which we know it is because of the second premise, then the second half must be true in order for the statement (our original premise of if p -> q) to be true! idk if this helps anyone, but conceptually it works a lot better for me.

this is making me happy that i just suffered through a half semester logic course

I think there’s also a case to be made that ANY child born during the marriage would mean the transfer of money aka if any child from any couple was born during the marriage, party A would owe money to party b

Another assumption that is made is that Mr. Fat Cat likes fish. He wouldn’t have a reason to knock over the bin unless he wanted to eat the fish inside; it is possible he hates fish so much he wanted to knock the bin over to get the fish out of there.

being pedantic, I would want to add one more premise to the disney argument in order to say that it must be true. we assume that the ONLY two ways to get genie + pass are the ones listed is the argument, but it is never stated within the argument that those are the only two ways to get a pass; for all we know, Walt could have stolen a pass or done some dark magic with Donald Duck. basically I would just want a premise stating that those are the only two ways to get a ass in order for me to believe that the argument must be true. “All other members” sort of implies it, but I would want stronger language to know he couldn’t steal it from someone

The big language in these questions always scares me; can't wait to get to the lessons that break it down!