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| The organized body of knowledge, or science, that evaluates arguments |
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| 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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| A sentence that is either true or false |
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| Statements that set forth the reasons or evidence |
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| Statement that the evidence is claiming to support or imply |
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| The reasoning process expressed by an argument (used interchangeably with "argument") |
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| The meaning or information content of a statement (used interchangeably with "statement") |
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| Fundamental elements are terms and arguments are evakuated as good or bad |
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| The kind of logic that involves such concepts as possibility, necessity, belief, and doubt |
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| at least one of the statements must claim to present evidence or reasoning |
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| There must b a claim that the alleged evidence supports or implies something |
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| A form of expression that makes a recommendation about some future decision or course of conduct |
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| An expression about what someone happens to believe or think about something |
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| Loosely Associated Statements |
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| May be about the same general subject, but they lack a claim that one of them is proved by others |
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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 |
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| The statement that describes the event or phenomenon to be explained |
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| The statement (/group of) that purports (=implication) to do the explaining |
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| The component statement immediately following the "if" of a conditional statement |
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| Follows "then" in a conditional statement |
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| An argument incorporating the claim that it is IMPOSSIBLE for the conclusion to be flase, given the premises are true |
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| An argument incorporating the claim that it is IMPROBABLE that the conclusion be false given that the premises are true |
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| An argument in which it is 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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| 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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| Strong Inductive Argument |
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| An inductive argument in which it is improbable that the conclusion be false given that the premises are true |
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| An argument in which the conclusion does not follow probably from the premises, even though it is claimed to |
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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, fails to meet the total evidence requirement, or any combo of these |
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