PHIL 1021 Chapter : 02 21 12 Lec4
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From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary moved in a tiny . Reports: a set of statements intended to provide information about a situation, topic of event (argument 3) Illustrations: statement together with an explanatory or clarifying example (figure 4) Note: premise, conclusion indicators because, so, thus, therefore, etc. suggest the author is intending some statements intended to support another. Note: examples can be given to support a claim for a thesis (makes it an argument) Note: a passage can be read as either an illustration or an argument. Answer to this question: do the examples merely clarify a statement, or make an argument. Explanatory statement: provides reason for occurrence of some phenomenon: judy got sick because she ate too much. No evidence to think the over eating explanation is true.
