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| Argument | An ARGUMENT is a group of statements, one or more of which (the premises) are claimed to provide support for one of the others (the conclusion).
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| Argument Form | An arrangement of words and letters such that the uniform substitution of terms or statements in place of the letters results in an argument
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| Argument from analogy | An inductive argument that depends on the existence of a similarity between two things or states of affairs.
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| Argument by authority | An inductive argument in which the conclusion rests on a statement made by some presumed authority or witness.
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| Argument by definition | A deductive argument in which the conclusion is claimed to depend merely on the definition of some word or phrase used in the premise or conclusion.
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| Cogent Argument | An inductive argument that is strong and has all true premises.
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| Conclusion | The statement (proposition) in an argument which is claimed to follow logically from the premises.
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| Conclusion Indicators | Conclusion indicators are indicator words that provide clues in identifying the conclusion of an argument. Some conclusion indicators are: therefore wherefore thus consequently we may infer accordingly we may conclude
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| Conditional Statement | An "if...then" statement. Conditional statements contain a conditional operator as well as two component statements. The component statements are the conditional's antecedent and the consequent.
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| Deductive Argument | An argument incorporating the claim that it is impossible for the conclusion to be false given that the premises are true.
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| Explanation | An expression that purports to shed light on some event or phenomenon. All explanations have two components: the explanans and the explanandum.
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| Explanans | The explanans is the component of an explanation that explains the event of phenomenon indicated by the explanandum.
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| Explanandum | The explanandum is the component that describes the event or phenomenon to be explained.
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| Expository Passage | A kind of discourse that begins with a topic sentence followed by one or more sentences that develop the topic sentence.
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| Illustration | An expression involving one or more examples that is intended to show what something means or how it is done.
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| Inductive Argument | An argument incorporating the claim that it is improbable that the conclusion is false given that the premises are true.
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| Inductive Generalization | An inductive argument that proceeds from the knowledge of a selected sample to some claim about the whole group.
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| Informal Fallacy | A fallacy that can be detected only through analysis of the content of an argument.
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| Logic | Logic is the organized body of knowledge, or science, that evaluates arguments.
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| Loosely Associated Statements | Statements that are about the same general subject matter and that lack an inferential relationship.
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| Modus Pollens | If today is Tuesday, then I will go to work.
Today is Tuesday.
Therefore, I will go to work.
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| Modus Tollens | If the watch-dog detects an intruder, the dog will bark.
The dog did not bark
Therefore, no intruder was detected by the watch-dog.
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| Premise | A statement within an argument which is claimed to provide support for the argument's conclusion.
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| Premise Indicators | indicator words that provide clues in identifying the premises of an argument. Some premise indicators are: since as indicated by because for in that may be inferred from as given that seeing that
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| Report | A kind of non-argument consisting of one or more statements that convey information about some topic or event.
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| Sound Argument | A deductive argument that is valid and has all true premises.
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| Statement/Proposition | is a sentence of phrase that is either true or false. more... The truth or falsity of a statement (proposition) is called its TRUTH VALUE
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| Statement of Belief or Opinion | A kind of non-argument composed of statements that express the personal conviction of a speaker or writer without giving any evidence in support of that conviction.
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| Strong Argument | An inductive argument in which it is improbable that the conclusion is false given that the premises are true.
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| Truth Value | There are two classical truth values (true and false). All statements (propositions), by definition, bear a truth value, i.e., each is either true or false, not both and not neither.
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| Valid Deductive Argument | An argument in which it is impossible that the conclusion is false given that the premises are true.
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| Weak Analogy | An informal fallacy that occurs when the conclusion of an argument depends on an analogy or similarity that is not strong enough to support the conclusion.
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| Weak Inductive Argument | An inductive argument in which the conclusion does not follow probably from the premises even though it is claimed to do so.
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