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Kaylen January 17, 2024

"Claim," conclusion or premise?

What is a "claim"? Is it a conclusion or premise? I am confused because question 5 uses "claim" in the following manner "It is one of the claims on which the conclusion is based," but question 8(the current question uses "claim" as if it is a conclusion. What is the correct way to interpret the word?

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Emil-Kunkin January 18, 2024

Claim just means statement. A conclusion is a claim that is supported by premises. A premise is a claim that supports another claim.

In general on argument structure questions like these, the answer choices will be of the format "it is an X that does Y"

The latter half of this is more important than the first. As long as the former fact is not completely incorrect (eg labeling a premise as a conclusion) what we are about is what it does in the argument far more than what it is