Online Course Support | Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments

If a word in a sentence can be replaced by a conclusion marker without significantly changing the meaning of the sentence, then the word is used as a conclusion marker in that sentence.

 
 
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ANSWER: TRUE

This substitution is good test of when a word is functioning as a conclusion marker. For example, the word “so” does not function as a conclusion marker in “He is so smart,” because this does not mean the same as “He is therefore smart.” In contrast, the word “so” does function as a conclusion marker in “He is smart, so he will probably win,” because this does mean the same as “He is smart; therefore, he will probably win.”

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