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the claim that is proposed as true.
Often the word ‘therefore’ is missing:
Cafeteria food tastes great; we should get early lunch. |
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an argument whose premises being true would mean that the conclusion would have to be true. Such an argument is ‘valid’.
These arguments ‘prove’ their conclusions.
Mr. Neufeld teaches at Brentwood College School.
Brentwood College School is in Canada.
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Mr. Neufeld teaches in Canada |
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| a claim or set of claims intended to make another claim, object, event, or state of affairs intelligible. |
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good deductive: an argument whose premises being true would mean the conclusion absolutely must be true.
good inductive: an argument whose premises being true would mean the conclusion is probably true |
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An argument whose premises being true would mean that the conclusion would probably be true. Such an argument is ‘strong’. These arguments ‘support’ their conclusion.
Naturally all ‘scientific’ evidence is inductive.
i.e.
Mr. Neufeld has a toddler. Mr. Neufeld has to answer a lot of questions and respond to lots of orders.
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Out of 2000 patients, 87% of the time they took an acetominophen (Tylenol), their headache went away. Acetominophen relieves headache pain. |
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the claim that supports the conclusion.
premise indicators: since, because, for, implied by |
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| a valid argument whose premises are true. |
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see good inductive argument
good inductive: an argument whose premises being true would mean the conclusion is probably true |
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see good deductive argument
good deductive: an argument whose premises being true would mean the conclusion absolutely must be true. |
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| Premises that depend on one another as support for their conclusion. if the assumption that a premise is false cancels the support another provides for a conclusion, the premises are dependent. |
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