Glossary

Argument: A set of reasons to support a claim.

Conclusion: The claim intended to be supported by premises.

Premises: The claims given as a reason for thinking the conclusion of the argument is true.

Argumentation: A set of reasons in support of a conclusion .

Validity: The conclusion necessarily follows from the premise. i.e if the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true.

Soundness: Validity + a true premises= a true conclusion

Fallacies: Defective reasoning

Fallacies of Relevance: Present evidence unrelated to the truth of the conclusion i.e unwarranted assumptions

Fallacies of Presumption: Making unwarrented assumptions without giving independent evidence of it’s truth

Ad Populum: Appeal to the popular opinion but doesn’t make it right i.e bandwagoners

Complex Question: A question where you are guilty either way

Slippery Slope: Assuming there is a train that leads cause to effect (unrelated)

Equivocation: When one word is being used in two different ways

Begging the Question: A circular argument i.e avoiding the question

Epistemology: The study of knowledge

Platonism: All art is morally suspect

Utopianism: All art is uplifting

Essence: An inner feeling or emotion which is expressed externally.

Expression: What is subjective in the artist becomes resolved into a form which makes it accessible to others.

Clarity: How well the emotion is executed.

Expression: What is subjective in the artist becomes resolved into a form which makes it accessible to others.

Infection: The artists expressions is assimilated by others through mutual understanding.

Clarity: How well the emotion is executed.

Cartesian Foundationalism: establishing a base of certainty that can support an entire system of knowledge

Dualism: The view that mind and body are separate and independent of the body.

Anguish: Universal responsibility to do the right things to do to influence others/ impact on the world.

Abandonment: There is no God to help us and we are on our own

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