2. I want to earn a lot of money. (premise) 3. I should become a doctor. (conclusion) Inferences are the reasoning parts of an argument. Conclusions are a type of inference, but always the final inference. Usually, an argument will be complicated enough to require inferences linking the ...
In a sketch by the British comedy group Monty Python, a man walks cheerfully into an “Argument Clinic” and says he wants to have an argument. After paying the receptionist for a five minute argument, he is shown into an office, where a man behind a desk begins contradicting everything ...
The argument sketch (Transcribed by D. Kay). Retrieved July 14, 2010, from http://www.mindspring.com/mfpatton/sketch.htm Monty Python. (2006, April 8). Argument clinic (video). Retrieved March 3, 2012, from video.google.com: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-572077907195969915...