Critical Thinking: Review of Arguments

A ______ is to an argument as a roof is to a house.

Arguments and reports are each structured differently and have different objectives. We cannot analyze one according to the standards of the other. An argument differs from a report in that:

Induction, unlike deduction, is measured in terms of:

A conclusion is a clear statement of what the argument intends to prove. However, a conclusion can also be implied. In which example below does an implied conclusion appear?

All sentences are statements.

A quick method for analyzing an argument is first to identify its conclusion.

Any number of reasons can be offered to support one conclusion.

Conclusions only appear in inductive reasoning, not deductive.

Premise indicator words include the words because and for example.

A frequent conclusion indicator word is therefore.