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| A diagram that uses circles to represent sets and their relationships. |
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| The term of a syllogism that is stated in the minor premise and forms the subject of the conclusion. |
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| An argument where the premises are supposed to support the conclusion in such a way that if the premises are true, it is improbable that the conclusion would be false. Thus, the conclusion follows probably from the premises and inferences. |
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| The contradictory of a particular claim. |
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| The B part of a conditional claim. |
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| A sect, group, or faction holding or advocating a particular belief, idea, ideology... |
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| Eight relations from the square of opposition |
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| 1) 0 to E is true. 2) I to A is true. 3) E to O is true. 4) A to I is true. 5) E to I is a contradiction. 6) A to O is a contradiction. 7) I to O is a contradiction. 8) A to E is a contradiction. |
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| Telling how one type of thing or action relates to another. |
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| A table that lists all possible combinations of truth values for the claim variables in a symbolized claim or argument and then specifies the truth value of the claim or claims for each of the possible combinations. |
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| A claim that lacks sufficient precision to convey the information appropriate to its use |
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| A claim or set of claims intended to make another claim, object, event, or state of affiars intelligible |
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| A letter that stands for a claim. |
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| A compound claim made from two simpler claims. A conjunction is true if and only if both of the simpler claims that make it up are false. |
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| The A part of a conditional claim. |
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| Is a lanuage used primarily to persuade or influence beliefs or attitudes rather than to prove logically |
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| An argument consisting of a conditional claim as one premise, a claim that affirms the antecedent of the condition as a second premise, and a claim that affirms the consequent of the condition as the conclusion. |
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| A system of logic that specified the logical relationships among truth-functional claims; claims whose truth values depend solely upon the truth values of the simplest component parts. |
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| Deductive Generalizations |
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| If this sitiation is similar (or identical) to previous situations, then it is expected that a result will be similar (or identical). |
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| A word or phrase( i.e. 'because') that ordinaryily indicates that presence of the premise if the argument |
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| Two premisis and one conclusion; the premisis uses categorical logic. |
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| An argument in which something that is said to hold true for one thing is claimed also to hold true of a similar thing. |
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| An argument consisting of a conditional claim as one premise, a claim that denies the consequent of the condition as a second premise, and a claim that denies the antecedent of the conditional as the conclusion. |
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| A compound claim made up of two simpler claims. A disjunction is false if and only if both of the simpler claims that make it up are false. |
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| Screening your beliefs to see if it really makes sense; weighing & analyzing, evaluations arguments for or against a claim that expresses our beliefs |
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| The term in a syllogism that is common to both premisis and excluded from the conclusion. |
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| A diagrammatic representation of the opposition of categorical prepositions. |
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| A claim that could be interpreted in more than one way and whose meaning is not made clear by the context |
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| A claim that is true only if its predicate holds true. |
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| An assertion of relationships between two classes, groups, or categories. |
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| The term of a syllogism that forms the predicate of the conclusion |
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