Bare assertion: “This person is exceedingly generous” gives a conclusion without support.
Argumentative formulation: “He helps those in need; therefore his generosity is well known” supplies a discernible relation between reason and conclusion.
The conjunction “therefore” is not sufficient in itself. The reason must genuinely bear on the conclusion. Conversely, an argument may be present even when no explicit inferential connector appears.
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The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl
Bare assertion: “This person is exceedingly generous” gives a conclusion without support.
Argumentative formulation: “He helps those in need; therefore his generosity is well known” supplies a discernible relation between reason and conclusion.
The conjunction “therefore” is not sufficient in itself. The reason must genuinely bear on the conclusion. Conversely, an argument may be present even when no explicit inferential connector appears.