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

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