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| the organized body of knowledge that evaluates arguments |
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| a group of statements one or more of which the premises are claimed to provide support for the conclusion |
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| a declarative sentance that is either true or false |
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| truth and falsity of a statement |
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statements that claim to support the conclusion
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| statement that the evidence is claimed to support |
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- since
- as indicated by
- because
- for
- in that
- may be inferred from
- as
- given that
- seeing that
- for the reason that
- in as much as
- owing to
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- therefore
- wherefore
- thus
- consequently
- we may infer
- accordingly
- we may conclude
- it must be that
- for this reason
- so
- entails that
- hence
- it follows that
- implies that
- as a result
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| the reasoning process expressed by an argument |
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| the meaning or information content of a statement |
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| a form of expression intended to put someone on gaurd against a dangerous or detrimental situation |
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| a form of expression that makes a recommendation about some future decision |
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| an expression about what someone happens to believe or think about something |
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| loosely associated statement |
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| may be about the same general subject but lacks a claim that one of them is proved by the others |
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| a group of statements that convey information about some topic or event |
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a kind of discourse that begins with a topic sentence followed by one or more sentences that develop the topic sentence
*can be both argument and nonargument
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an expression involving one or more examples that is intended to show what something means or how it's done
*can be both argument or non
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| illustration and expository statements that are arguments |
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| the statement or group of statements that purports to do the explaining |
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| the statement that describes the event or phenomenon to be explained |
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| an "if....then...." statement |
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| the component immediately following the "if" |
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| the component statement immediately following the "then" |
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| b is a necessary condition for a whenever a cannot occur without an occurence of b |
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| a is a sufficient condition for b when the occurence of a is all that is needed for the occurence of b |
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| an argument in which it is impossible for the conclusion to be false given the premises are true |
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| an argument in which it is improbable that the conclusion is false given that the premises are true |
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| argument based on mathematics |
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| the conclusion depends on some purely arithmetic or geometric computation or measurement |
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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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| a syllogism in which each statement begins with one of the words all no or some |
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| a syllogism having a conditional "if...then..." statement |
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| a syllogism having a disjunctive "either...or..." statement |
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| an argument that proceedes from our knowledge of the past to a claim about the future |
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| depends on the existence of a similarity between two things |
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| an argument that proceedes from th eknowledge of a selected sample to some claim about a whole group |
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| concludes something is true becasue a presumed expert or witness has said that it is |
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| proceeds from the knowledge of a sign to a claim about the thing or situation that the sign symbolizes |
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