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• Rhetoric
  ..., or [[point of view]], by presenting sound reasoning, [[discussion]], and argument that thoroughly convince the [[reader]]. Persuasive writing is a type of ar ...]] for sequencing or putting details and [[information]] into some kind of logical order, usually [[chronological]]. Working with narration helps us see clear
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• Pretext
  ...This oft-repeated phrase was the ultimate conclusion of all [[logical]] [[argument]] in every oration, regardless of the subject of the [[speech]]. This [[pat
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• Omniscience
  ...y with free will has been a debated topic by theists and philosophers. The argument that divine foreknowledge is not compatible with free will is known as theo ...be forced to swerve to avoid a collision — this is assuming each player is logical and follows optimal [[strategy]].[8]
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• 125:5 The Third Day in the Temple
  ...[[egoistic]] [[desire]] to win an [[argument]] merely to [[experience]] [[logical]] triumph over his fellows, being interested [[supremely]] in just one thin
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• 4.6 The Ego-Body Illusion
  ...non-threat to itself. In one sense the ego's [[fear of God]] is at least [[logical]], since the [[idea]] of Him does dispel the ego. But [[fear]] of the body, ...h the ego feels safe, since the body's [[vulnerability]] is its own best [[argument]] that you cannot be of [[God]]. This is the [[belief]] that the ego sponso
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• Silence
  ...he assumption that someone's silence on a matter suggests ("proves" when a logical fallacy) that person's ignorance of the matter. In general, ''ex silentio''
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• Skepticism
  ...propositions could not rely on each other, as this would create a circular argument (as p implies q and q implies p). For the skeptics such logic was thus an i
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• Deduction
  '''Deductive reasoning''' is [[reasoning]] which uses deductive [[argument]]s to move from given statements ([[premise]]s), which are assumed to be tr ...l evidence to a particular truth or conclusion; whereas with induction the logical dynamic is precisely the reverse. Inductive reasoning starts with a parti
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• Logic
  ...ient Greek|Classical Greek]] λόγος [[logos]]; meaning word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle) is the study of valid [[inference]] and [[d * '''[[Informal logic]]''' is the study of [[natural language]] [[Logical argument|arguments]]. The study of [[fallacies]] is an especially important branch
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• 2004-06-21-Correcting Time Successful Through Your Ministry
  ...comfortable speaking their minds to Jesus. He was gentle with them and yet logical. He always had them reach for the best inside them. The apostles, on the ot ...couple to become better as people, no. There would have only been further argument and resentment.
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• Philosophy
  ...attempt to categorize every valid [[syllogism]]. A syllogism is a form of argument that is guaranteed to be accepted, because it is known (by all educated per ...ave been an uncaused "first cause." This is God. Aquinas also adapted this argument to prove the goodness of God. Everything has some goodness, and the cause o
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• Sophism
  ...ifferent]] [[things]]: In the modern definition, a sophism is a specious [[argument]] used for [[deceiving]] someone. In Ancient Greece, the sophists were a gr ...roles of [[traditional]] [[deities]] (this was done to make "the weaker [[argument]] appear the stronger") and [[investigating]] into the [[nature]] of the [[
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• Existence
  ...atical predicate, but philosophers have long disputed whether it is also a logical predicate. Some philosophers claim that it predicates something, and has t However, this argument may be inverted by realists in arguing that since the sentence "Socrates is
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• Integration
  ...rtain process. Apart from that one argument, there is practically no other logical reason in support of either racial or cultural integration. 1951 J. D. L. K
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• Western Philosophy
  ...ticism (philosophy)|critically]]'' (in which case the main question is the logical question of whether what past philosophers said was true or false, and what ..."possibly" and "necessarily", or [[temporal logic]], which deals with the logical relationships established by the ''[[tense]]'' of a sentence.
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• 1995-06-02-Trust
  ...reading]] this I find myself very unhappy with not being able to find an [[argument]]. Could you in any way help?" ...[Ed. note: [[116:0|See UB page 1268, first two paragraphs]] for similar [[argument]]] So one can not find the answer in [[logic]].
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• 2005-04-03-Perform To You Highest Capacity
  ...lity that is tangible to another. It is through association over and above argument that another will begin to shift the mind to the entertainment of a contrar
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• Inquiry
  ...that it provides us with doubly instructive exercises in the use of his [[logical graph]]s, taken at the level of his so-called '[[alpha graph]]s'. ...modes of statement are distinguished by the roles that they play within an argument, not by their style of expression. When the time comes to branch out from
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• Medieval Philosophy
  ...However, the theological works of medieval writers use the [[ideas]] and [[logical]] techniques of the ancient philosophers to address difficult theological q ...on translations by [[Boethius]] into Latin of Aristotle's Categories, the logical work On Interpretation, and his Latin translation of [[Porphyry]]'s Isagoge
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• Analogy
  ...to such a process. In a narrower sense, analogy is an [[inference]] or an argument from one particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, inducti * The logical and mathematical tradition speaks of an ''arrow'', ''[[homomorphism]]'', ''
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