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Analyzing arguments
This document provides an overview of identifying premises and conclusions in arguments. It defines premise and conclusion indicators as words or phrases that typically introduce a premise or conclusion. Examples of premise indicators include "since", "because", and "for". Examples of conclusion indicators include "therefore", "so", and "accordingly". The document then provides 10 examples of arguments and asks the reader to identify the premise and conclusion in each. It aims to help the reader analyze the components of arguments and understand how premise and conclusion relationships are structured.
Analyzing arguments
- 1. Exercise of Chapterno 01 Analyzing Arguments Prepared by:- Abdul Qadir
- 2. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir2 Analyze the Premise and Conclusion in an Argument.
- 3. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir3 Q)How you may determine a conclusion or a premise in an argument? Some words or phrase typically serve to introduce the conclusion of an argument, and are therefore called Conclusion Indicators. Some words or phrase typically serve to introduce the premise of an argument, and are therefore called Premise Indicators.
- 4. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir4 Premise-Indicators Since Because For As Follows as As shown by Inasmuch as This is a Partial List not complete
- 5. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir5 Conclusion-Indicators Therefore Hence So Accordingly In Consequence Consequently Proves that As a result For this reason Thus This is a Partial List not complete
- 6. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir6 A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Argument 1 Premise Conclusion Read Carefully
- 7. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir7 We can avert a majority of cancers by preventions efforts, even if we never get straight on the causes; more research on prevention and less on cure makes increasing sense. Premise Conclusion Argument 2
- 8. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir8 Good sense of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks himself so abundantly provided with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters do not commonly desire more of it than they already possess. Premise Conclusion Argument 3
- 9. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir9 You need to vote because America doesn't work if you don't vote. Conclusion Premise Argument 4
- 10. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir10 Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. Premise Conclusion Argument 5
- 11. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir11 Males born into poverty are more likely to commit crimes as teenagers and adults than are more privileged males. So a boom in birth among poor mothers can be expected to exert upward pressure on the crime rate 15 to 20 years later. Premise Conclusion Argument 6
- 12. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir12 The essence of our admirable economic system is to create wants as fast as, or faster than it satisfies them. Thus, the improvement of living conditions, meaning greater consumer satisfaction, is, by definition, impossible. Premise Conclusion Argument 7
- 13. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir13 The investigation of supernatural phenomena lies outside the realm of science. Therefore, science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God. Premise Conclusion Argument 8
- 14. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir14 He that loveth not Knoweth not God; for God is love Premise Conclusion Argument 9
- 15. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir15 Because light moves at a finite speed looking at objects that are millions of miles away is actually looking at light that was emitted many years ago. Argument 10 Premise Conclusion
- 16. All Rights Reservedto Abdul Qadir 16 Thank You…..