SSH 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Propositional Calculus, Hypothetical Syllogism, Logical Reasoning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: Klaas Kraay

Document Summary

When arguing, it is important to eliminate material-background informaion, jokes and anecdotes. The standard form of arguing is the following: 1st premise, 2nd premise, 3rd premise, conclusion. The beneits of wriing an argument in standard form is as follows: (remember, it"s not wriing an argument in an essay. Even if they are controversial or false, it is sill important to include them (?). Wriing in standard form makes it easier to igure out the missing premises and what they are: this form is straight forward when one is arguing. People can easily determine the arguments then expect the conclusion in the end: this form makes it easy to number or refer your points making arguing convenient and easier. Argument analysis: it is the process of picking arguments from prose passages (passages, quotes, sentences or paragraphs from a source), puing them into standard form and determining if they are good arguments.