SSH 105 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Propositional Calculus, Logical Reasoning, Thesis Statement

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Quiz 2: study sheet: formalize an argument or a proposition. Identify the pattern of arguments using sentential logic (e. g. denying the consequent, elimination, etc. and state whether they are valid or not. Identify whether an argument is valid, cogent, or ill-formed. Give reasons (argue) for your judgement: add a missing (or implicit) premise, in order to make an ill-formed argument into a cogent or valid argument, decide whether an argument is strong and whether it is inductively or deductively strong. In the case of a cogent argument, imagine a premise that could defeat the argument: decide whether a passage (or a sentence) is more rhetorical or argumentative. You should know how to define the following terms; and you should have insight into how to deal with them (e. g. how to identify an inductively strong argument, or distinguish rhetorical from descriptive and argumentative writing).