Chapter 1.2 Flashcards

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Illustration

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Is an expression involving one or more examples that is intended to show what something means or how it is done.

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Expository passage

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Is a kind of discourse that begins with a topic sentence followed by one or more sentence that develop the topic sentence.

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Arguments from example

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An argument that purports to prove something by giving one or more examples of it.

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Explanation

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Is an expression that purports to shed light on some event or phenomenon.

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Explanandum

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Is the statement that describes the event or phenomenon to be explained.

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Explanans

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Is the statement or group of statements that purports to do somthing.

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Conditional statement

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Is an if then….

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Antecedent

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The component of a conditional statement immediately following the word “if”

The component if a conditional statement to the left of a horseshoe.

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Consequent

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The component of a conditional statement immediately following the word “then” ;the component of a conditional statement that is not the antecedent , the component of a conditional on the right of the

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Sufficient condition

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The condition represented by the antecedent in a conditional statement.

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Necessary condition

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The condition represented by the consequent in a conditional statement.

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