SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependent Clause, Apple Pie

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

Document Summary

Knowing how to construct and evaluate definitions is vital to critical thinking. To master a discipline"s key concepts and ideas. To clarify the claims people make in their arguments. To claim that something is true is to assert it. A conjunction is a sentence with an "and" in it. A disjunction is a sentence with an "or" in it. Either john is late or my clock is fast. A conditional is a sentence with an "if" in it. If i don"t study, then i won"t pass this course. Neither the antecedent nor the consequent is asserted. A conditional asserts that the truth of the antecedent is sufficient or enough for the truth of the consequent. A propositional noun clause is a sentence prefixed with "that" Some of these assert that oysters are delicious, others don"t. It all depends on the meaning of the verb before the "that"