ILRLR 3300 Prelim 1 Questions and Answers Verified
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argumentation - ✔✔the cooperative activity of developing and advancing arguments and of
responding to the arguments of others
argument - ✔✔a claim advanced with a reason or reasons in its support
audience - ✔✔people for whom we develop our arguments
advocacy - ✔✔the activity of promoting or opposing an idea in public settings
power - ✔✔the capacity to wield influence, to shape important decisions that affect the lives
of others
public discourse - ✔✔open discussion of those issues that potentially affect everyone
pluralistic culture - ✔✔a society composed of groups who see the world from different
perspectives, value different activities, hold disparate religious beliefs, and aspire to different
goals
values - ✔✔deeply held moral commitments acquired from family, cultural background,
religious training, and personal experience
rule of reason - ✔✔the agreement to engage in the cooperative process of argumentation
rather than to resolve disagreement by other means
procedures - ✔✔the rules or guidelines according to which argumentation will take place
,claim - ✔✔a statement the advocate believes or is in the process of evaluating
reason - ✔✔a statement advanced for the purpose of establishing a claim
conclusion - ✔✔a claim that has been reached by a process of reasoning
inference - ✔✔the rational movement from a particular reason or reasons to a particular
conclusion
case - ✔✔a series of arguments, all advanced to support the same general contention or set
of conclusions
logical sense - ✔✔your sense of how arguments develop
indicators - ✔✔words and phrases such as "because" and "therefore" that provide important
clues to identifying reasons and conclusions in an argument
structure of inferences - ✔✔the relationships among the reasons and the conclusions in an
argument
cues - ✔✔words or phrases that signal something, other than a reason or a conclusion,
about the content of an argument
reservation - ✔✔a statement that acknowledges the existence of an argument, evidence, or
an attitude opposing the conclusion being advanced
evidence - ✔✔reason rooted in observation
, connectives - ✔✔reasons that consist of beliefs, values, assumptions, or generalizations that
link evidence to a conclusion
proposition of facts - ✔✔statement that report, describe, predict, or make casual claims
fact - ✔✔a claim that can potentially be verified as either true or false
proposition of values - ✔✔statements that advance judgments about morality, beauty,
merit, or wisdom
proposition of policy - ✔✔statements that urge that an action be taken or discontinued
deductive arguments - ✔✔arguments that lead to unnecessary conclusions where their
reasons are true
premises - ✔✔the reasons in a deductive argument
necessary conclusion - ✔✔a particular conclusion to which the reasons or premises in a
deductive argument - when accepted as true - unavoidably lead
inductive arguments - ✔✔arguments whose reasons lead to probable conclusions
inductive leap - ✔✔a reasoning process in which the conclusion of an inductive argument
moves beyond its stated evidence
scanning - ✔✔identifying and marking the statements in an argument, as well as underlining
indicators and cues
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argumentation - ✔✔the cooperative activity of developing and advancing arguments and of
responding to the arguments of others
argument - ✔✔a claim advanced with a reason or reasons in its support
audience - ✔✔people for whom we develop our arguments
advocacy - ✔✔the activity of promoting or opposing an idea in public settings
power - ✔✔the capacity to wield influence, to shape important decisions that affect the lives
of others
public discourse - ✔✔open discussion of those issues that potentially affect everyone
pluralistic culture - ✔✔a society composed of groups who see the world from different
perspectives, value different activities, hold disparate religious beliefs, and aspire to different
goals
values - ✔✔deeply held moral commitments acquired from family, cultural background,
religious training, and personal experience
rule of reason - ✔✔the agreement to engage in the cooperative process of argumentation
rather than to resolve disagreement by other means
procedures - ✔✔the rules or guidelines according to which argumentation will take place
,claim - ✔✔a statement the advocate believes or is in the process of evaluating
reason - ✔✔a statement advanced for the purpose of establishing a claim
conclusion - ✔✔a claim that has been reached by a process of reasoning
inference - ✔✔the rational movement from a particular reason or reasons to a particular
conclusion
case - ✔✔a series of arguments, all advanced to support the same general contention or set
of conclusions
logical sense - ✔✔your sense of how arguments develop
indicators - ✔✔words and phrases such as "because" and "therefore" that provide important
clues to identifying reasons and conclusions in an argument
structure of inferences - ✔✔the relationships among the reasons and the conclusions in an
argument
cues - ✔✔words or phrases that signal something, other than a reason or a conclusion,
about the content of an argument
reservation - ✔✔a statement that acknowledges the existence of an argument, evidence, or
an attitude opposing the conclusion being advanced
evidence - ✔✔reason rooted in observation
, connectives - ✔✔reasons that consist of beliefs, values, assumptions, or generalizations that
link evidence to a conclusion
proposition of facts - ✔✔statement that report, describe, predict, or make casual claims
fact - ✔✔a claim that can potentially be verified as either true or false
proposition of values - ✔✔statements that advance judgments about morality, beauty,
merit, or wisdom
proposition of policy - ✔✔statements that urge that an action be taken or discontinued
deductive arguments - ✔✔arguments that lead to unnecessary conclusions where their
reasons are true
premises - ✔✔the reasons in a deductive argument
necessary conclusion - ✔✔a particular conclusion to which the reasons or premises in a
deductive argument - when accepted as true - unavoidably lead
inductive arguments - ✔✔arguments whose reasons lead to probable conclusions
inductive leap - ✔✔a reasoning process in which the conclusion of an inductive argument
moves beyond its stated evidence
scanning - ✔✔identifying and marking the statements in an argument, as well as underlining
indicators and cues
