PHIL 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Iceberg, Explanandum And Explanans
10 Feb 2016
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Recognizing arguments and distinguishing them from what are. There are some things that look like arguments even though they are not arguments: they may contain logical indicators, and they might even appear persuasive. This can cause much confusion b/c we end up trying to find premises and conclusion, and so forth, when there aren"t any. So it helps to have a list of these things. Things that look like , but aren"t arguments: reports, unsupported claims, conditionals, disjunctions (and other compound statements, illustrations, explanations. Some passages will merely describe things or events. For example, newspaper articles and other news sources often simply report things that happened. These are not arguments b/c no claim is being offered as reason to believe any other claim i. e. there is no inference. During the last quarter of the 20th century, the nation aged, and more of its people gravitated to the sunbelt. Sprawling urban corridors challenged older cities as sites for commercial development.
