Thursday, April 02, 2009

Additional Resources on Necessary and Sufficient Conditions

In class on Wednesday, we discussed necessary and sufficient conditions -- a framework for identifying and evaluating the assumptions lurking in arguments. I find that thinking about things in terms of necessity and sufficiency helps clarify the most important aspects of any argument, so I encourage you to incorporate these logic rules into your intellectual toolkit.

Some additional resources on these concepts (e.g., additional definitions and examples) are available here and here.

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