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| the science that evaluates arguments |
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| a group of statements, one or more of this (the premises) are claimed to provide support for, or reasons to believe, one of the others (the conclusion). |
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| a sentence that is either true or false |
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| a statement in an argument that sets forth evidence |
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| the statement in an arument that the premises are claimed to support or imply |
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| a word that provides a clue to identifying a conclusion |
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| a word that provides a clue to identifying the premise |
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| the reasoning process expressed by an argument |
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| the information content of a statement |
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| a deductive argument consisting of two premises and one conclusion |
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| the logic that deals with categorical propositions and categorical syllogisitic. |
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| a kind of logic that deals with concepts such as possibility, necessity, belief, and doubt. |
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| a claim that something is true; a claim that evidence or reasons are being presented |
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| a claim that alleged evidence or reasons support or imply something |
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| a form of expression intended to put someone on guard against a dangerous or detrimental situation |
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| a form of expressing that makes a recommendation about some future decision or course of conduct |
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| statement of belief/opinion |
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| a kind of nonargument 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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| loosely associated statements |
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| statements that are about the same general subject and that lack an inferential relationship |
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| a kind of nonargument consisting of one or more statements that convey information about some topic or event |
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| a kind of dicourse that begins with a topic sentence followed by one or more sentences that develop the topic sentence |
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| an expression involving one or more examples that is intended to show what something means or how it is done |
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| an argument that purports to prove something by giving one or more examples of it |
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| an expression that purports to shed light on some event or phenomenon |
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| the component of an explanation that describes the event or phenomenon to be explained |
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| the component of an explanation that describes the event or phenomenon indicated by the explanandum |
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| the component of a conditional statement immediately following the word "if" |
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| the component of a conditional statement immediately following the word "then" |
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| a statement that makes a claim about one or more (but not all) members of a class |
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| a statement that makes a claim about all the members of a class |
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| an inductive argument that proceeds from knowledge of some event in the relative past to a claim about some other event in the relative future |
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| an inductive argument that depends on the existence of a similarity between two things or states of affairs |
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| an inductive argument that proceeds from the knowledge of a selected sample to some claim about the whole group |
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| an inductive argument in which the conclusion rests on the statement made by some presumed authority or witness |
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| an inductive argument that proceeds from the knowledge of a sign to a claim about the things or situation that the sign symbolizes |
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| an inductive inference that proceeds from knowledge of a cause to a claim about an effect, or from knowledge of an effect to a claim about a cause |
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| 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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| a syllogism in which all three statements are categorical propositions |
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| a syllogism having a conditional statement for one or both of its premises |
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| a syllogism having a disjunctive statement for one or both of its premises - a valid argument form/rule of inference: "p or q / not p//q" |
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| argument based on mathematics |
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| a deductive argument in which the conclusion depends on some purely arithmetic or geometric computation or measurement |
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| an argument incorporation the claim that is is impossible for the conclusion to be false given that the premises are true |
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| an argument incorporation the claim that is is improbable that the conclusion is false given that the premises are true |
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| the condition represented by the consequent in a conditional statement |
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| the condition represented by the antecedent in a conditional statement |
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| an argument in which is it impossible for the conclusion to be false given that the premises are true |
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| invalid deductive argument |
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| a deductive argument in which it is possible for the conclusion to be false given that the premises are true |
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| strong inductive argument |
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| an inductive argument in which it is umprobable that the conclusion be false given that the premises are true |
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| a deductive argument that is valid and has all true premises |
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| a deductive argument that is invalid, has one or more false premises, or both |
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| 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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| an inductive argument that is strong and has all true premises |
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| an inductive argument that is weak, has one or more false premises, or both |
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| an argument or statement that has the same form as a given argument for or statement form |
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| a method for proving invalidity; consists in constructing a subsititution instance having true premises and false conclusion |
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