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Inference-Indicators
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Hello all, it's been ages since I've posted on here. I'm stuck on this question I have for a philosophy course of mine and am hoping some of you more erudite analysts can help me out.
The problem is as follows: -Locate the inference-indicator and conclusion of the following passage:
"An object offers as much resistance to the air as the air offers to the object. You may see that the beating of its wings against the air supports a heavy eagle in the highest and rarest atmosphere, close to the sphere of elemental fire. Again you may see the air in motion over the sea, fill the swelling sails and drive heavily laden ships. From these instances, and the reasons given, a man with wings large enough and duly connected might learn to overcome the resistance of air, and by conquering it, succeed in subjugating it and rising above it. (Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks)
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Inference indicators are expressions which precede a premise or conclusion of an argument. Inference indicators are the easiest way to identify an argument. They are road signs that the writer uses to alert the reader about the logical relationships that are claimed to hold between statements. Some indicators are more common than others. While many premise indicators function grammatically as conjunctions and many conclusion indicators are adverbs, grammatical function is not a reliable guide to logical function. Some indicators are logically dyadic (requiring two statements), e.g., “since” and “because.” In such cases, the indicator picks out the expression that follows immediately after the indicator. Consider the argument, “Because Jesus was a human being, he must have had kidneys.” Here, “Jesus was a human being” is the premise of the argument while “Jesus must have had kidneys” is the conclusion.
The following list is not exhaustive. There are many more variations. Quickly commit the list to memory and you will have a basic mastery of the anatomy of arguments in ordinary language in both your reading and your writing.
here is a list of words that indicate inference-indicators
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dclose/ctinfer.htm
"from these instances" is the premise indicator and "and the reasons given" would be the conclusion.
seems that way to me.
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SneezingPenis
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well.... now that I think about it, I am pretty sure that the indicator is correct, but Im not so sure about the conclusion... but it would definitely have to be somewhere in that sentence.
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"Inference indicators are expressions which precede a premise or conclusion of an argument. Inference indicators are the easiest way to identify an argument."
-some website
I would say that the first statement precedes the premise or conslusion which is that you are somehow able to rise above with large wings that are duly connected.
Can you have wings that are not connected somehow??
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So I'm thinking that "from these instances, and the reasons given" is the inference-indicator, and that the following statement is the conclusion. Thoughts?
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no... those are the premise indicators and the conclusion.... what you are looking for is the conclusion, and the inference-indicators.... the inference-indicators, from what I can tell, come before the premise indicator....
so, backfrom the dead, IMO, has the inference-indicator correct.
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