Conclusions pose something of an impossible situation, because your task is to restate your argument and your argument’s significance without sounding repetitive, dull or melodramatic. If you find ...

As a faculty member in the Department of English, I have always asked my students to produce argumentative essays. Over more than three decades of teaching, I’ve added more and more non-traditional ...

The Structure of a Philosophic Argument A philosophic argument is composed of two basic parts: premises and a conclusion. The conclusion is the claim the argument purports to establish. The premises ...

One of the most fundamental skills LSAT takers need to master is how to divide an argument into premises and conclusions. A logical argument is a series of claims that make a point. A conclusion ...

Both the logical reasoning and reading comprehension sections of the LSAT have questions that ask for something like "the main point of an argument” or “the author’s main conclusion.” ...

Anselm's ontological argument purports to be an a priori proof of God's existence. Anselm starts with premises that do not depend on experience for their justification and then proceeds by purely ...

Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I explore the exasperating matter of extremely argumentative people. You undoubtedly have encountered such troublesome ...