Argument: A set of sentences that are in support of a claim.
Conclusion: It is the claim supported by your argument.
Premise: A sentence that provides support (a reason) in an argument.
Standard Form: Outlined argument, numbering premises, and indicating the conclusion.
Deductive Validity: It states that an argument is valid if the conclusion necessarily follows from premises. If the premises are true then the conclusion must also be true.
Soundness: An argument is sound if it’s valid and all premises are true.
Inductive Strength: It’s unlikely that the conclusion is false if the premises are true.
Cogency: The claim made by the argument is a reasonable conclusion.
Inductive Argument: It may be weak or strong, not valid or sound; In standard logic, the term means “an argument that’s intended to be strong rather than valid.”
Persuasive Argument: An argument with plausible, or obviously true, or antecedently accepted premises. It can be inductive or deductive.
Epistemology: The study of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope.
Mimesis: Art is represented as an imitation.
Techne: Art is represented as a skill.
Catharsis: Purification or purgation.
Purification: Purifying something means getting rid of the worse or baser parts of it.
Reversal of Situation: A change in which action veers round to its opposite, subject always to our rule of probability or necessity.
Recognition: A change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons for good or bad fortune.
Aesthetic: Anything that wakes up the senses.
Expression: The process whereby what is subjective in the artist becomes resolved into a form which makes it accessible to others.
Infection: The process whereby that which the artist expresses is assimilated.
Adrian Leyva 