Which definition is correct?

a. Semantics is the study of arguments.
b. Rhetoric is the orderly presentation of thoughts that can be traced, analyzed, and judged by intellectual standards.
c. An argument is a group of propositions in which one is claimed to follow from the others that provide the evidence for that one.
d. Logical reasoning is inference.


ANS: C

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