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PHI332 : The Class : Argument Evaluation : Analogy : Exercise4.2.12
The acorn argument (from 4.2.1)
1. The development of an acorn from seed, through falling to the ground, into
sapling-hood is continuous.
2. To draw a line, to choose a point in this development and say "before
this point the thing is not an oak tree, after this point it is an oak tree"
is to make an arbitrary choice, a choice for which in the nature of things no
good reasons can be given.
Thus 3. The acorn is, or anyway we had better say it is, an oak tree from the
moment of first existence.
Once you have completed this excercise you should:
Go on to Exercise4-2-13
or
Go back to Argument from Analogy
E-mail George Rudebusch at George.Rudebusch@nau.edu
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