Taylor's Reductio

To prove: women don't have rights. For indirect proof, assume the opposite--that women have rights.

1. If women have rights, then so do brutes. (the claim Taylor must defend)
2. Brutes don't have rights. (assumption)
3. Women have rights. (assumption for indirect proof)
4. Therefore, brutes have rights. (1,3 Modus Ponens) [aha! a contradiction]
5. Therefore, either premise 1, 2 or 3 are incorrect.

• Taylor claims that premise 3 is incorrect.
• Wollestonecraft claims that premise 1 is incorrect.
• Singer claims that premise 2 is incorrect.