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Logic
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An organized body of language, or science, that evaluates arguments.
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Premise
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A premise or premises set evidence for a conclusion.
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Inference
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A reasoning process expressed by an argument.
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Proposition
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The meaning or information content of a statement.
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Statement
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A sentence that is either true or false.
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Argument
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A group of statements that has one or more premises that contain support or reasons to believe the conclusion.
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Conclusion
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The statement that is claimed to follow from the premises.
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Truth Value
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Truth or falsity of a statement.
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Non-statements
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Questions, commands, suggestions, proposals, exclamations.
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Syllogistic Logic
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Logic in which the fundamental elements are terms, and arguments are evaluated as good or bad depending on how the terms are arranged in the argument.
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Modal Logic
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Deals with possibility, necessity, belief, or doubt.
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Premise indicators
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Since, as indicated by, for, given that
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Conclusion indicators
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Therefore, thus, so, entails that, consequently
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Conditional statements
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"If...then..." statements.
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Antecedent
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The "if" part.
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