PHIL 347 Quiz 1 |Complete Questions with A+ Graded
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What is the purpose of analysis?
To find the speaker's meaning.
What is the very first step of analysis?
Find the speaker's conclusion and premises.
Claim means
The statement the maker of the argument is seeking to show is true or probably true,
the conclusion.
Claim can also be used to refer both ________ and ________.
Premises; Conclusions.
*The text refers to claim as the conclusion only*
Argument
Combination of a person's claim and the reason or reasons a person presents in
support of that claim.
An argument is?
Two or more declarative statements, at least one of which serves as evidence to
support the truth or probable truth of the other.
An argument is two or more _________ statements.
Declarative
One declarative statement must serve as evidence to support the _______ of the
other.
Truth
The statements that provides the evidence is called the ________.
reason/premise
The claim that is supported by evidence is called the ______.
Conclusion
Example of conclusion and reason
I won't pass this course (conclusion) because I haven't studied (reason).
The term because signals the what?
reason/premises
What is facts, data, examples?
The term therefore signals what?
conclusions
What is the point the speaker is trying to make?
What constitutes as a claim?
A claim is a statement that says something has happened, will happen, is happening, or
ought to happen. ONLY declarative sentences are claims.
"We wanted to have a formal dinner and we wanted at least four courses, so we
served an appetizer, made soup for the first course, and prepared roast beef for
the main course and we made a cake for desert. Some formal dinners have as
many as seven courses. We'd have done just as well with three courses. We
didn't need the soup."
Answers
What is the purpose of analysis?
To find the speaker's meaning.
What is the very first step of analysis?
Find the speaker's conclusion and premises.
Claim means
The statement the maker of the argument is seeking to show is true or probably true,
the conclusion.
Claim can also be used to refer both ________ and ________.
Premises; Conclusions.
*The text refers to claim as the conclusion only*
Argument
Combination of a person's claim and the reason or reasons a person presents in
support of that claim.
An argument is?
Two or more declarative statements, at least one of which serves as evidence to
support the truth or probable truth of the other.
An argument is two or more _________ statements.
Declarative
One declarative statement must serve as evidence to support the _______ of the
other.
Truth
The statements that provides the evidence is called the ________.
reason/premise
The claim that is supported by evidence is called the ______.
Conclusion
Example of conclusion and reason
I won't pass this course (conclusion) because I haven't studied (reason).
The term because signals the what?
reason/premises
What is facts, data, examples?
The term therefore signals what?
conclusions
What is the point the speaker is trying to make?
What constitutes as a claim?
A claim is a statement that says something has happened, will happen, is happening, or
ought to happen. ONLY declarative sentences are claims.
"We wanted to have a formal dinner and we wanted at least four courses, so we
served an appetizer, made soup for the first course, and prepared roast beef for
the main course and we made a cake for desert. Some formal dinners have as
many as seven courses. We'd have done just as well with three courses. We
didn't need the soup."
