Premise

The premises of an argument are just as important as the conclusion they are defending. The purpose of premises in an argument is to validate the conclusion. There are many approaches one can take to display their reasons in a logical manner.Three of the major supporting strategies are linear support, branching support, and joint support. Arguments do not need to have an abundance of reasons for its conclusion to be deemed legitimate. Linear support is an example of this. Linear support…

support of main premise 1 that proposed technological solutions to environmental problems are inadequate. The author contends that with each new advance in technology it becomes increasingly difficult to return to earlier technologies that were once effective. Because…

is said, you must wish goods for his own sake” (Aristotle, 426). Premise 1: Friendship requires mutual loving. Premise 2: Soulless things do not love. Premise 3: Friendship requires reciprocated wishing of good to the friend for the friend’s own sake. Premise 4: Any good wished towards a soulless thing is not for its own sake. Premise 5: Soulless things cannot wish good towards an individual, nor reciprocate goodwill. Premise 6: Friendship requires…

will find, his argument is not sound. There are also revisions to Meletus’ claims which will be presented as it will display a stronger argument in favor of Socrates’ atheism. Lastly, some of Socrates’ premises within his argument will be discussed on their controversial nature. The first premise: Socrates does not believe in any gods, corresponds to Meletus’ original claim of atheism and corruption of the youth. He asks clarification on what Meletus’ indictment that Socrates is teaching the…

This generalisation does not hold for countries like Kenya where the lack of legal frameworks impedes the implementation of RET’s (Osok,2010). Hence, this premise is irrelevant to the author’s claim commits the fallacy of generalisation. The relevant premises are insufficient to support the author’s claim as they fail to address the government policy decisions required to install RET’s. According to the Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions(n.d.), policy…

this article consists of five premises that lead to his conclusion on…

alternatives. Explanation: This argument utilizes the following three premises to show the impossibility of free will: 1) You can’t change the past. 2) You can’t change the laws of nature. 3) Given the past and the laws of nature, there’s only one thing that you can do next. Based on these premises, the argument concludes that “you have no alternatives.” Premise 1 The first premise is that “you can’t change the past.” In this premise, the word “can’t” represents inability. Additionally,…

sound since all premises support the conclusion therefor all of the premises are true. I validate Descartes’ Indivisibility Argument for Mind/Body Dualism by using each premise in the argument and how each premise is a strong back bone why the conclusion is true. Also having awareness of the other side of the argument and using strong counter arguments to build up an influential and powerful argument from my view of things. Thru out the essay will clarify each premise on how the premise support…

It is important to consider whether the argument has its premises and conclusion. The conclusion of an argument is the basis of the argument. In other words, it is what a given person is trying to prove in his or her argument. Every argument has a point to prove, and that is the reason an analysis of an argument…

indeed invisible, so in that way it does resemble a soul (see Premise 3 above). However, one of the conditions of a soul was that it did not change (see Conclusion 2 above), which does not…