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Argument - ANSWER gives one or more ideas as reasons to accept one or more other
ideas (often these ideas may be implied)



Premise - ANSWER an idea that an argument gives as a reason to accept another idea
(any argument can have any number of these)



Words/Phrases that marks a premise - ANSWER - After all

- Seeing that

- For one thing

- For

- Moreover

- Given that

-Because

- Since

- Furthermore

- For the reason that

- In light of the fact that

- Whereas



Conclusion - ANSWER an idea an argument supports with one or more premises



Intermediate Conclusion - ANSWER a conclusion the argument uses to support another
conclusion




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, Main Conclusion - ANSWER a conclusion the argument doesn't use to support any other
conclusion



Words/Phrases that marks a conclusion - ANSWER - Clearly

- It follows that

- Suggests that

- Entails that

- Proves

- Surely

- Hence

- Shows that

- Therefore

- Implies that

- So

- Thus



How do you identify premises/conclusions without marker words? - ANSWER consider
which statements the author gives as reasons to accept which other statements (reasons -
premises, idea author is persuading for - conclusions)



Valid Argument - ANSWER one whose conclusions follow from its premises (a valid
argument with false premises, the conclusion would follow if the premises were true)



Sound Argument - ANSWER a valid argument with true premises



Assumption - ANSWER an idea taken for granted (a conclusion is never an assumption)



Implicit Assumptions - ANSWER assumptions the author considers too obvious to state
(weak and vulnerable to criticism)

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