Arguments VS Explanations

Wanda rode the bus today because her car was in the shop.

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Either Bob or Henry rode the bus to work today. But it wasn’t Henry because I saw him riding his bike to work. Therefore, it was Bob.

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Since Wanda doesn’t have enough money in her bank account, she has not yet picked up her car from the shop.

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The reason some people with schizophrenia hear voices in their head is that the cognitive mechanism that monitors their own self-talk is malfunctioning and they attribute their own self-talk to some external source.

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Fracking should be allowed because, although it does involve some environmental risk, it reduces our dependence on foreign oil and there is much greater harm to the environment due to foreign oil drilling than there is due to fracking.

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Wanda could not have ridden the bus today because today is a city-wide holiday and the bus service is not operating.

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The reason people’s allergies worsen when they move to Cincinnati is that the pollen count in Cincinnati is higher than almost anywhere else in the surrounding area.

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