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Table of Contents:The Structure of Arguments |
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![]() “Nonplussed Student,” 1875, woodcut by Alfred James Swinbourne [1] Whenever people offer reasons or evidence for the truth of a statement, they are advancing an argument. In this part of our logic course, we investigate some of the ways that logical inferences can be evaluated. In sum, logic is a study of sorting valid or reliable arguments from invalid or unreliable ones in accordance with specific rules. From a logical point of view, the expression of strong feeling is termed emotive discourse, not argumentative discourse. So the definition of “argument” in this course is considerably narrower than its lexical definition indicates. Most of ordinary discourse is not argumentative. 1. Alfred James Swinbourne, Image: “Nonplussed Student,” Picture Logic; or, The Grave Made Gay,” London: Longmans, Green: 1875), 2.↩ |
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