A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO
LOGIC CHAPTER 1 BASIC
CONCEPTS QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED
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Your Exam Plug
, Logic - Answer: The organized body of knowledge, or science, that evaluates arguments (pg. 1).
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) (pg. 1).
Statement - Answer: A sentence that is either true or false--in other words, typically a declarative
sentence or a sentence component that could stand as a declarative sentence (pg. 2).
Truth Values - Answer: The attribute by which a statement is either true or false (pg. 2).
Premises - Answer: The statements that set forth the reasons or evidence (pg. 2).
Conclusion - Answer: The statement that the evidence is claimed to support or imply (pg.2).
Conclusion Indicators - Answer: Words that provide clues to identifying a conclusion: therefore, thus,
consequently, accordingly, so, hence, we may conclude, we may infer, implies that... (pg. 3).
Premise Indicators - Answer: Words that provide clues to identifying a premise: since, for, because,
given that (pg. 3).
Inference - Answer: The reasoning process expressed by an argument (pg. 5). Dr. Anacker's definition:
"movement of reasoning from evidence to conclusion"; mental concept/event
Proposition - Answer: The information content of a statement (pg. 5).
Syllogistic Logic - Answer: A kind of logic in which the fundamental elements are terms, and arguments
are evaluated as good or bad depending on how the terms are arranged in the argument (pg. 5).
Modal Logic - Answer: A kind of logic that involves such concepts as possibility, necessity, belief, and
doubt (pg. 5).
LOGIC CHAPTER 1 BASIC
CONCEPTS QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED
A+
Your Exam Plug
, Logic - Answer: The organized body of knowledge, or science, that evaluates arguments (pg. 1).
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) (pg. 1).
Statement - Answer: A sentence that is either true or false--in other words, typically a declarative
sentence or a sentence component that could stand as a declarative sentence (pg. 2).
Truth Values - Answer: The attribute by which a statement is either true or false (pg. 2).
Premises - Answer: The statements that set forth the reasons or evidence (pg. 2).
Conclusion - Answer: The statement that the evidence is claimed to support or imply (pg.2).
Conclusion Indicators - Answer: Words that provide clues to identifying a conclusion: therefore, thus,
consequently, accordingly, so, hence, we may conclude, we may infer, implies that... (pg. 3).
Premise Indicators - Answer: Words that provide clues to identifying a premise: since, for, because,
given that (pg. 3).
Inference - Answer: The reasoning process expressed by an argument (pg. 5). Dr. Anacker's definition:
"movement of reasoning from evidence to conclusion"; mental concept/event
Proposition - Answer: The information content of a statement (pg. 5).
Syllogistic Logic - Answer: A kind of logic in which the fundamental elements are terms, and arguments
are evaluated as good or bad depending on how the terms are arranged in the argument (pg. 5).
Modal Logic - Answer: A kind of logic that involves such concepts as possibility, necessity, belief, and
doubt (pg. 5).
