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1. Proposition= a claim about the world; eg. water is wet/ the earth is round; a claim about
ho the world is
2. Word/sentencne type= the abstract idea that the word portrays
3. Word token or sentence token= the writing on a book or sound in a speech
4. Porpositions are not word tokens or word types
5. Arugemnt = sequences of proposition
A. Conclusion = last proposition in an arugment
B. Premise= other propisiton
6. Conclusion
A. Hence
B. Thus
C. So
D. It follows that
7. Premise
A. Becayse
B. Since
C. Given that
8. Necessary Truth Preservation
A. The property that since all the premises are true, then the conclucsion must be true
bductive rea- soning, also known as (aka) “inference to the best explanation”—where one reasons from the
data at hand to the best available explanation of that data (e.g., concluding that the butler did it, because this
hypothesis best fits the available clues).
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