Chapter 2 Claims: The Key Elements of Reasoning Flashcards

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What are the four levels of language?

A

a word

a statement

the text

the context

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What do we call statements that assert the trught of some information or knowledge abou the world?

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Claims

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Complete the following sentence:

A claim is always a claim, but the truth of some claims is ……..

A

established

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What is the defining property of a claim?

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That is asserts something to be true

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What should one be able to ask to determine whether a statement is a claim?

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Is this statement true or false?’.

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