Argument - An argument is an attempt to convince someone (possibly yourself) that a particular claim, called the conclusion, is true.

The rest of the argument is a collection of claims called premises, which are given as the reasons for believing the conclusion is true. The point of an argument is to convince that a claimthe conclusionis true. The conclusion is sometimes called the issue that's being debated. (Epstein & Kernberger, 2006) - In logic an argument is a sequence of sentences (called premises) that lead to a resulting sentence (called the conclusion). Arguments are composed of sentences. Sentences are said to have the truth value T (corresponding to what we normally think of as true) or the truth value F (corresponding to false). (Downing, 2009) Conclusion The conclusion is the phrase in an argument that follows as a result of the premises. In a conditional statement the conclusion is the then part of the statement. It is the part that is true if the antecedent (the if part) is true. For example, in the statement If he likes pizza, then he likes cheese, the conclusion is the clause he likes cheese. The conclusion of a conditional statement is also called the consequent. Logic Logic involves using sound reasoning to draw the right conclusions from known facts. If you cannot fault the reasoning, it is likely that the conclusions are correct. Checking the reasoning is an important part of logical thinking. But perfectly good reasoning is no use if the basic facts are wrong, so you have to check those as well. (Woodward, 2009) The core of logic is about consistency and deduction, both of which are indispensable for everyday thinking, not to mention scientific research and legal reasoning in logic and critical thinking, an argument is a list of statements, one of which is the conclusion and the others are the premises or assumptions of the argument. (Lau, 2011)

Logic is the study of sound reasoning. Logic focuses on the study of arguments. An argument is a sequence of sentences (called premises), that lead to a resulting sentence (called the conclusion). An argument is a valid argument if the conclusion does follow from the premises. In other words, if an argument is valid and all its premises are true, then the conclusion must be true. Here is an example of a valid argument

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