ENGLISH - 1st trimester – Day 44
· Complete AGREEMENT overhead (#25) – review answers
· What’s the difference between an argument and a contradiction?
a. Video
· Take notes:
a. Premise: a reason offered as support for another claim
b. Conclusion: the claim being supported by a premise or premises
c. Argument: a conclusion together with the premises that support it
· All men are mortal. (P)
· Socrates was a man. (P)
· Therefore Socrates is mortal. (C)
- Consider the following argument:
- You spilled it. Whoever makes the mess cleans up the mess.
i. What is clearly implied here is the conclusion: You clean up the mess.
- Now consider the following argument:
- You should not eat that greasy hamburger. It is loaded with fat.
i. Again, something is implied, but this time, what’s implied is a premise: You should not eat anything that is loaded with fat.
- Finally, it is important to remember that sometimes arguments can have more than one conclusion. Look at the following argument:
- Since yesterday’s editorial cartoon succeeded in making the mayor look silly, the cartoonist must have finally regained his touch. And the mayor probably won’t be reelected.
i. This argument can be thought of as having two different arguments in it. We can analyze it in the following way:
1. Premise: Yesterday’s editorial cartoon succeeded in making the mayor look silly.
2. Conclusion: The cartoonist has finally regained his touch.
a. And
3. Premise: Yesterday’s editorial cartoon succeeded in making the mayor look silly.
4. Conclusion: The mayor probably won’t be reelected.
- Name that conclusion!! – (see student handout argument from factcheck.org)
ENGLISH homework:
Study for Friday’s Prefix test (11 prefixes
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