To answer these questions, we must look at the basic building blocks of any logical argument: premises and conclusions. Premises are assertions that, when joined together, will lead the reader to the …

In the work that follows, we will analyze collections of premises in order to recognize whether valid conclusions are possible. In all cases, we will exclude trivial conclusions.

Standard Argument Form: First, recall that an argument is a set of premises which support some conclusion. In this section, we will be specifically concerned with the kind of argument called a …

Ideas that the argument uses as evidence for the ultimate conclusion, but that the argument assumes to be true without providing proof for them, are called “premises.” Every argument has at least one …

Premises include the cost, less accumulated depreciation, of land and buildings actually owned and occupied (or to be occupied) by the institution, its branches, and consolidated subsidiaries.

VALID Argument: is an argument whose conclusion is True when all its premises are True. INVALID Argument: is an argument whose conclusion is false when all the premises are true but the premises …

We list the premises first, and draw below the last premise. The sentences justified by earlier steps are conclusions (subsidiary or ultimate). Next to each we write the rule by which it is justified, along with …