Intro to Logic Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz (Masterbooks)

A truth claim. _____ is either true or false (though sometimes we don't know which)

• Argument

• Proposition

• Premise

• Conclusion

The tendency to induce belief or behavior in a person. A _________ argument is one in which most people will accept the conclusion as true.

• Proposition

• Premise

• Inferences

• Persuasive

The proposition in an argument that the person is attempting to prove

• Premise

• Conclusion

• Inferences

• Argument

A proposition in an argument that is taken as an accepted fact.

• Argument

• Inferences

• Conclusion

• Premise

A series of propositions where the truth of one is said to follow from the other

• Premise

• Conclusion

• Argument

• Inferences

Opinions formed from evidence; what people reason to be true or likely true from evidence or reason

• Proposition

• Premise

• Argument

• Inferences