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PHI332 : The Class : Argument Evaluation : Analogy : Exercise4.2.17
The barred window and innocent person analogy (from 4.2.6 (4))
1. If [I had bars installed outside my windows, precisely to prevent anyone from getting in, and I] voluntarily [open a window to air my room], knowing of the [very small] chance it will issue in [entry by someone], and [because of a defect in the bars an innocent person does enter], then [my] partial responsibility for the [innocent person's] being there DOES itself give it a right to the use of [my room].
3. Thus [expelling the innocent person] would be doing [the innocent person] an injustice.
4. Then . . . if [I] voluntarily [admitted the innocent person into my room, I] can NOT now kill [or expel] it, even in self-defense.
Hint: see Warren, para. 3, p. 342.
Once you have completed this excercise you should:
Go on to Exercise4-2-18
or
Go back to Argument from Analogy
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