Compound Claims

Compound Claims are when there are two different claims put together, yet it has to be considered one claim. Some claims may confuse you and these are called contradictory claims. This means that one of the claims contradicts the other. For example: "She is sitting in the chair." & the contradictory claim would be "She isn't sitting in the chair."  Compound claims are used to help deteremine if the arguement is valid. If someone says either they let students in the game for free or I'm not going to the game. Students do not get in free so I am not going to the game. Therefore I stayed home. This is a valid arguement becuase the premises and conclusion are both true. Its important think of other possiblities while making "or" claims. Not using good possiblities can make a false dilemma, which makes the claim false. Conditional claims usally have "then" or "if" in it. This claim has two parts that make it one complete claim. You can't have one part of it with out the other or it wouldn't be a claim.