Language of Arguments

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Lecturer: Dr Mary Coupland

-Principle of parsimony

-Arguments from consequences

-Proposition

-Premiss or Premise

-Logical Fallacies

                Formal Fallacy

                Informal Fallacy

-Circular reasoning

-Ad Hominem

-Antecedent

-Refute

Two leading questions involving the evaluation of arguments are as below.

            1. Do the premisses support the conclusion?

            2. Are all the premises true?

Relevant and useful links

Analysing arguments   Categorical Propositions  Informal fallacies  Valid & Invalid Arguments   Logical fallacies [examples]  Fallacies of Language Language arguments  Formal and Informal Fallacies  Arguments, Premises, and Conclusions  Argument terms and Fallacies  Formal Fallacies  Validity & Soundness [Philosophical Writing]  Making sense of Arguments

Proposition   Premise

Relevant Fallacies   Formal Fallacy   Informal Fallacy