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Question: "It is a beautiful day out, and a walk in the park will make you feel better" is an argument because the "conclusion" is a walk in the park will make you feel better, and the "premise" is it is a beautiful day out. How do i know this you may ask? An ARGUMENT is a set of statements that claims that one or more of those statements, called the PREMISES, support another of them, called the CONCLUSION. Thus, every argument claims that its premises support its conclusion. I am consciously intentionally reading for the argument and when I do this, I am asking myself, what claim am I being asked to believe or accept, what other claims are being offered as reasons to accept that claim? It took me a while to figure out if that sentence was an argument because there weren't any indicators, but not all arguments have key words that flag it. Indicators are words or a phrase that signals that the attached claim is meant to support some other claim. I didn't consider the word "and" to be an indicator. However, I rephrased to sentence to myself. So instead of the original sentence I thought of it like "It is a beautiful day out, therefore a walk in the park would make you feel better". I also feel as if the sentence already inferences that because it was a beautiful day out it already connected the relationship of the next sentence by saying a walk in the park will make you feel better because why else would the person take a walk in the park. The actual presence of an inference indicator is not important. What is important is the relationship of support between the thoughts of the speaker. This relationship is a defining condition of an inference: if two thoughts are linked by such a relationship