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CRITICAL THINKING – Fundamentals: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions

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In this video, Kelley Schiffman (Yale University) discusses one of the most basic tools in the philosophers’s tool kit: the distinction between necessary and sufficient conditions. Through the use of ordinary language glosses and plenty of examples this mighty distinction is brought down to earth and presented in a ready-to-use fashion.

[Video and text source: Wireless Philosophy YouTube channel]