Practice Uncovering an Argument: Sunspots and Exoplanets
This question set presents you with an everyday argument expressed in ordinary language and asks you to identify its basic components, distinguish its essential from its nonessential content, and translate it into standard form.
Topics
- argument
- argument form
- components of an argument
- conclusion
- conclusion indicator
- essential content
- essential premise
- explicit conclusion
- explicit premise
- high school
- implicit conclusion
- implicit premise
- nonessential content
- ordinary language argument
- premise
- premise indicator
- reasoning
- reasons
- scientific reasoning
- standard form argument
- tone
- translating an argument
- uncovering an argument
- unstated conclusion
- unstated premise