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Problem: The Power of Critical Thinking

Define and explain each item on the outline. I look for specific answers that reflect the Module Lecture readings.

Chapter I: The Power of Critical Thinking.

Explain/define the following:

I. Statements and claims:

1) Claim; statement
2) Proposition-- see Lecture

II. Explain/Define the following (from lectures and text).

1) Necessary truth
2) Contingent truth
3) Contradictions

III. Define an argument in logic and critical thinking.

IV. List some conclusion and premise indicator words:

1) Premise
2) Conclusion

V. How do premises and conclusions relate to each other by way of the term inference? Read below:

READ: How to Detect an Argument: Please read information in note

Note: In most arguments there is a claim that the statements present evidence or reasons for the conclusion. Though it is not necessary that the premises present true reasons, they must nevertheless claim to do so. This occurs when it is claimed that the passage contains a certain kind of reasoning process. In detecting arguments, look for an explicit argument or the implicit claim to an argument (in the latter no indicators may be present, and the reader must examine the inferential link between statements).

Define at least two conditions, according to the NOTE above, that must be fulfilled for a passage to be an argument.

• Condition 1
• Condition 2.