CS101 Lecture Notes - No True Scotsman, The Slippery Slope, Fallacy

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Claim: a basic proposition from which you might begin to argue. Evidence: corroborating reasons and facts that can be verified beyond the immediate scope of the argument. Premise: the reasons for accepting an argument and its conclusion: provides support to an arguments conclusion, an argument may have one or more premises. Soundness: an argument is sound if it can be logically born out to a conclusion supposed by evidence. Sound vs. unsound: an argument that is logical can be either sound (valid) or unsound. Inference: is the act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true without actually witnessing or having first hand knowledge of certain events. Fallacy: an argument that uses poor reasoning: an error in reasoning that impedes the elaboration of a logically sound argument, these arguments lead to an apparently sound conclusion according to faulty logic.

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