SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependent Clause, Apple Pie, Chocolate Cake

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: David Hunter

Document Summary

Knowing how to construct and evaluate definitions is vital to critical thinking: 1. Master a discipline"s key concepts and ideas: 2. Clarify the claims people make in their arguments: 3. To claim that something is true is to assert it. A conjunction is a sentence with an and in it: e. g. Lets call the 2 parts, conjuncts", both conjuncts are asserted. A disjunction is a sentence with an or in it: e. g either john is late or my clock is fast. Lets call the 2 parts, disjuncts", neither disjunct is asserted. A conditional is a sentence with an if" in it: e. g if i don"t want study, then i won"t pass this course. The antecedent what follows the word if . The consequent what follows the word then . A conditional asserts that the truth of the antecedent is sufficient or enough for the truth of the. Neither the antecedent nor the consequent is asserted consequent.