Definitions

Question 1

A passage that attemps to convince an audience that some claim is true, and presenting reasons for believing it.

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Argument

Question 2

A passage that attempts to inform an audience why or how some claim is true.

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Explanation

Question 3

A passage that attempts to give an audience a better or deeper understanding of what something is like, or how something is done.

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Description

Question 4

A passage that attempts to give an audience a quick overview, or condensed information on something that has gone before.

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Summary

Question 5

A passage that attempts to give an audience a person’s personal belief, without stating reasons or structures for drawing conclusions, and can be retained even after identifying structural problems, new information or contradictory evidence in the belief.

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Opinion

Question 6

a belief, idea, or claim that an arguer is trying to convince an audience of.

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Conclusion

Question 7

A reason or evidence to belive that some belief, idea, or claim is true.

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Premises

Question 8

Words that come immediately before conclusions or premises that can help identify them.

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Indicator words

Question 9

Opinions, descriptions, summaries are all kinds of these.

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Non-arguments

Question 10

When dealing with passages, we should try to be fair to the author’s intention and present the passage in its best light. This is called…

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The Principle of Charity

Question 11

When building arguments, we should try to make our statements as clearly and succinctly as possible to avoid ambiguity, using colliquials, words with special or unusual meanings. this is called…

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Clarity

Question 12

When building arguments, this characteristic of the belief means that we are willing to give up that belief in the presence of evidence that proves it is mistaken. this means the belief is…

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Truth Receptive

Question 13

In building arguments, Beliefs exist on a spectrum. Towards this end we have beliefs that are quite simple and widley accepted, that shouldn’t require extraordinary reasons or evidence, but not beyond questioning.

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Correctly Conservative

Question 14

In building arguments, Beliefs exist on a spectrum. Towards this end beliefs are highly unusual and marginally accepted, and demand extraordinary evidence.

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Responsibly Radical

Question 15

In building arguments, radical beliefs or claims demands a responsible arguer provide well supported reasons or evidence. This would be required to overturn well established points, and is called the…

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Burden of Proof

Question 16

In building arguments, reasons are given as evidence to convince of a claim. The reasons need to have this characteristic in relation to the claim in order for an audience to be able to adopt the belief. lacking this, you would disgard the reason and the claim would be percieved as unsupported.

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