Argument: A kind of rationale in which the reason(s) are intended to be taken as evidence for believing the conclusion.. Branch: One of multiple chains in a rationale that lead to the same conclusion.

It should be fairly obvious that normative statements can be the conclusions of arguments, for we often try to convince people to accept conclusions of this sort. But can they also be the conclusions ...

The Indiana Supreme court has ruled that a suspect cannot be forced to unlock her iPhone using her passcode, rejecting a legal argument known as ‘foregone conclusion.’ While the argument used against ...

I haven’t even begun to dig into Judge Walker’s 138-page opinion that strikes down Proposition 8 on both due process and equal protection grounds, but here are three key excerpts. First, the ...