| Chapter Glossary |
| Argument |
A set of statements attempting to prove the truth of a proposition. |
| Assuring |
A rhetorical strategy for promising to argue a premise at a later time. |
| Conclusion |
The statement in an argument which the premises are attempting to prove. |
| Conclusion indicator |
A word indicating that what follows is the conclusion of an argument. |
| Counterexample |
A description of a scenario in which the premises of the argument are all true while the conclusion of the argument is false. |
| Deductive Argument |
An argument whose conclusion is supposed to follow from its premises with absolute certainty. |
| Discounting |
A rhetorical strategy that acknowledges objections to a claim but dismisses them. |
| Explanation |
An argument that attempts not to establish that a conclusion is true but why a conclusion is true. |
| Guarding |
A rhetorical strategy for weakening a claim so that it is easier to make the claim true. |
| Inductive Argument |
An argument whose conclusion is supposed to follow from its premises with a high level of probability. |
| Logic |
The philosophical art of discerning the structure and truth of arguments attempting to prove propositions. |
| Paraphrase |
A condensing of the language of a part of an argument into a single statement premise. |
| Premise indicator |
A word indicating that what follows is a premise in an argument. |
| Premises |
Statements in an argument attempting to prove a conclusion. |
| Sound Argument |
A valid argument that has all true premises. |
| Statements |
The lines of an argument, including premises and a conclusion, which can be expressible by a sentence and are either true or false. |
| Subargument |
An intermediary argument used to establish the truth of a premise in a larger argument. |
| Valid Argument |
An argument in which if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true. |
