A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC
ACTUAL TEST BANK TESTED QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● Argument
Answer: a group of statements, one or more of which (the premises) are
claimed to provide support for, or reasons to believe, one of the others
(the conclusion)
●● Premises
Answer: the statements that set forth the reasons or evidence
●● Conclusion
Answer: the statement that the evidence is claimed to support or imply
●● What are not statements?
Answer: -Question
-Proposal
-Suggestion
-Command
-Exclamation
,●● List some conclusion indicators
Answer: -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
-it implies that
-as a result
●● List some premise indicators
Answer: -Since
-As indicated by
-because
-for
,-in that
-may be inferred from
-as
-given that
-seeing that
-for the reason that
-inasmuch as
-owing to
●● FIND THE PREMISE AND CONCLUSION:
"Expectant mothers should never use recreational drugs, since the use of
drugs of these drugs can jeopardize the development of the fetus."
Answer: Premise: "Since the use of these drugs can jeopardize the
development of the fetus."
Conclusion: "Expectant mothers should never use recreational drugs."
●● Inference
Answer: the reasoning process expressed by an argument
●● Proposition
Answer: the meaning or information content of a statement
, ●● Identifying Premise and Conclusion Practice!
Artists and poets look at the world and seek relationships and order. But
they translate their ideas to canvas, or to marble, or into poetic images.
Scientists try to find relationships between different objects and events.
To express the order they find, they create hypotheses and theories. Thus
the great scientific theories are easily compared to great art and great
literature.
Answer: P1: Artists and Poets look at the world and seek relationships
and order.
P2: But they translate their ideas to canvas, or to marble, or into poetic
images.
P3: Scientists try to find relationships between different objects and
events.
P4: To express the order they find, they create hypotheses and theories.
C: Thus the great scientific theories are easily compared to great art and
great literature.
●● Identifying Premise and Conclusion Practice!
ACTUAL TEST BANK TESTED QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● Argument
Answer: a group of statements, one or more of which (the premises) are
claimed to provide support for, or reasons to believe, one of the others
(the conclusion)
●● Premises
Answer: the statements that set forth the reasons or evidence
●● Conclusion
Answer: the statement that the evidence is claimed to support or imply
●● What are not statements?
Answer: -Question
-Proposal
-Suggestion
-Command
-Exclamation
,●● List some conclusion indicators
Answer: -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
-it implies that
-as a result
●● List some premise indicators
Answer: -Since
-As indicated by
-because
-for
,-in that
-may be inferred from
-as
-given that
-seeing that
-for the reason that
-inasmuch as
-owing to
●● FIND THE PREMISE AND CONCLUSION:
"Expectant mothers should never use recreational drugs, since the use of
drugs of these drugs can jeopardize the development of the fetus."
Answer: Premise: "Since the use of these drugs can jeopardize the
development of the fetus."
Conclusion: "Expectant mothers should never use recreational drugs."
●● Inference
Answer: the reasoning process expressed by an argument
●● Proposition
Answer: the meaning or information content of a statement
, ●● Identifying Premise and Conclusion Practice!
Artists and poets look at the world and seek relationships and order. But
they translate their ideas to canvas, or to marble, or into poetic images.
Scientists try to find relationships between different objects and events.
To express the order they find, they create hypotheses and theories. Thus
the great scientific theories are easily compared to great art and great
literature.
Answer: P1: Artists and Poets look at the world and seek relationships
and order.
P2: But they translate their ideas to canvas, or to marble, or into poetic
images.
P3: Scientists try to find relationships between different objects and
events.
P4: To express the order they find, they create hypotheses and theories.
C: Thus the great scientific theories are easily compared to great art and
great literature.
●● Identifying Premise and Conclusion Practice!
