Arguments and their Assessment

Here claims 1-4 are premises, claim 7 is the conclusion, and claims 5 and 6 are intermediate steps that follow as conclusions from 1-4, and help explain why 7 follows from the premises. Sometimes, in an argument form called Reductio ad Absurdum, a special kind of assumption is made—the assumption is that the desired conclusion is false. ................
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