SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tweety, Logical Reasoning, Tom Cruise

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: David Hunter

Document Summary

Statement/claim: a sentence that asserts something ( i"m taller than you ) Proposition: what you are trying to say in your statement. Conclusion: statement that is supported by one or more premise. Argument: sentence where there are multiple premises supporting the conclusion. Inference: process of reasoning between premise(s) and conclusion based on the premises. Rational strength: uses facts to prove their point (doesn"t have to be persuasive) Literary merit: original, interesting and how well written it is. Rhetorical power: when a person can convince someone with what he/she says (very clear, logical and convincing) Dogmistic -> stubborn pays no attention to new facts . Rational thinker: try their best to understand the information they receive from the conclusion based on (1) distinguishing genuine arguments (2) understand and interpret arguments (3) evaluate arguments. Argument stopper: sentence used to stop an argument. Realism: there are truths in a subject are; what those truths are does not depend on anyone"s beliefs.