UVIC PHIL 201 - Exam 1 Material Review Study Guide 2024.

UVIC PHIL 201 - Exam 1 Material Review Study Guide 2024. Argument - CORRECT ANSWER - A set of sentences, statements or propositions - A collection or premises that justify, or are supposed to justify, a conclusion Premise - CORRECT ANSWER - A statement intended to provide rational support for some other statement, often in conjunction with other ____________. Conclusion - CORRECT ANSWER - A statement intended to be rationally supported by a set of premises Inference - CORRECT ANSWER - The act of reaching a conclusion on the basis of some premise Assertion - CORRECT ANSWER - The act of stating something as if it were true Linked Argument - CORRECT ANSWER - An argument who's premises essentially tie together to support a single overall conclusion Convergent Argument - CORRECT ANSWER - An argument in which there are a range of independent grounds for a conclusion which are assembled together as premises Sequential Argument - CORRECT ANSWER - An argument in which the premises establish intermediate conclusions, which then serve of premises for some further conclusion Logic (Deductive Reasoning) - CORRECT ANSWER - Dedicated to the study of argument structures and identifying the ways in which different structured arguments can guarantee that, so long as their premises are true, then their conclusion must be true Validity - CORRECT ANSWER - The structural property of arguments