[OLD] CT S1 What is an argument?
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Created on July 11, 2024
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Transcript
What is an Argument?
Interactive Reading Task
You have probably come across the word 'argument' before. In critical thinking, the word 'argument' has a particular meaning.
- Write how you would define the word 'argument' in your Journalπ
Section 1: Types of Argument
Forming an argument
Section 1: Types of Argument
An argument is made up of several claims. Claims can be true or false. Does anything surprise you about this definition?Do you think the claims below are true or false and why?
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In an argument, one claim - the conclusion - should be supported by the other claims - called the premises.In other words, the premises are supposed to give us good grounds for thinking the conclusion is true.
Meet Umar! ππΌ
ConclusionTherefore, Umar has a brain.
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Premise 1 Umar is a human
Premise 2 All humans have brains
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Premises and conclusions
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The argument about Umar has just two premises and a conclusion.Other arguments may have just one premise, or they may have several.In this argument you can see that the premises do support the conclusion.In fact, in this example, if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true too.
Example of an argument
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Sometimes, the conclusion of the argument doesn't appear at the end.Notice that in this example the conclusion comes first.
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So, to sum up, an argument consists of a series of claims, called the premises and conclusion.The premises are supposed to support the conclusion - that's to say, they are supposed to give us grounds for thinking the conclusion is true
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