premise
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akhan0102
· started 2022-03-10 13:20
· last activity 2022-03-11 15:15
· 1 reply
here i got caught up in the words "given that" as indicating a premise but the end of the sentence had "should". So the conclusion can also be part of a sentence that has a premise?
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Emil-Kunkin
· 2022-03-11 15:15
Hi Akhan,
While you're right that the "Given that" likely indicates a premise- it is ok for a sentence to contain two separate clauses, and for one of the clauses to support the other. In fact, we could even have an argument that is just one sentence. For example, "Since it is raining and I don't want to get wet, I should carry an umbrella.
The sentence itself matters less than the ideas or clauses contained in it. We could have a ridiculously long run on sentence expressing several ideas. The unit of analysis that matters is each clause or idea expressed regardless of sentences.
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