What Is the Premises and Conclusion in the Statement?
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Many mental health practitioners are promoting the notion that alcohol abuse, drug abuse, over-eating, gambling, anorexia, bulimia and smoking are diseases. By using the disease model, its proponents believe that people are more apt to seek help because having an “illness” is more acceptable than having psychological or behavior disorder. I am reminded of the effects of saying that people with emotional difficulties were “sick,” and suffering from a “disease.” Psychology and psychiatry moved a long way forward when we listened to Thomas Szasz declare that mental illness was a myth, to Karl Menninger discussing degrees of personality organization, and to Benjamin Rush when he spoke of problems in living. Now it appears we are moving backwards. What will be the next “disease” to appear in the news media?
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Answer by Ardi Pithecus
Premiss: A proposition, or one of several propositions, from which an inference is drawn, or the sentence expressing such a proposition. http://www.ditext.com/runes/p.html
Take your first sentence as an example. It is not a proposition. It is a (hopefully) factual statement of journalism. Premisses are shorter, such as “Socrates is a man.” It is then followed by another premise, such as “Men are mortal”, or, as the definition states, an inference such as “If Socrates is a man, he should generally look like other men.”
You sound as if you are writing opinion pieces for your Journalism 101 courses, not deductive (or inductive) logic. Premises and conclusions deal with deductions and inductions. You don’t make either of those. To say, “Now it appears we are moving backwards,” is merely an opinion, not a conclusion that necessarily follows from what came before.
That is a condition of a conclusion: it must follow necessarily, by the rules of logic, from the premises. You are not using logic; you are using journalism.
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