Statements, premises and conclusions

Choose a statement.

• Ann likes all fish including craw fish.

• Please eat slowly.

• What are you doing?

• Is she here?

A premise is...

• A statement that supports a conclusion.

• A question

• A command

• Main point of a passage

A conclusion indicates

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What is inside an argument?

• Statements, premises, conclusions.

• Conclusions only.

• Statements only.

• Premises only.

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All humans are mortal. Hank Green is a human. The conclusion here is...

• Hank Green is human.

• Hank Green is mortal.

• Humans are Hank Green.

• All humans are mortal

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A premise can contain

• Examples

• Reasons

• Details

• Conclusion

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Which of the above is an argument?

• She exercises a lot, she must be an athlete.

• Amir is a good student, he studies every night.

• Chicken is two legged animal, is it not?

• Maria is a teacher at SMK Seksyen 9.

Which are conclusion indicators

• Thus

• Proves that

• Since

• Judging from

Which are premise indicators

• Therefore

• For

• Assuming that

• In view of

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