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Conclusion

Meaning in philosophy, with examples

/kənˈkluːʒən/nounCore term

In philosophy, conclusion means: The statement that an argument tries to establish, supported by the premises that lead up to it.

In Turkish: sonuç, vargı

How it is used

You draw, reach or establish a conclusion, and a conclusion follows (or does not follow) from the premises. In written arguments it is usually introduced by therefore, thus, so or hence.

Example sentences

  1. The conclusion simply does not follow from these premises.

  2. Before you criticize the argument, state its conclusion in one sentence.

Common collocations

  • draw a conclusion
  • reach a conclusion
  • the conclusion follows
  • jump to conclusions
  • premiseA statement that is given as a reason in an argument and from which the conclusion is supposed to follow.
  • argumentA set of statements in which some of them, the premises, are offered as reasons for accepting another one, the conclusion.
  • inferenceThe step of reasoning from one or more statements to another, or the conclusion that is reached by taking that step.
  • entailTo make something logically necessary: if A entails B, then B must be true whenever A is true.

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