Premise and Conclusion indicators :

Premise and Conclusion indicators :

Now the question is how we will determine which proposition is the conclusion and which one is premise?
It is not necessary that the premise must precede conclusion, we cannot rely upon the order of the propositions.
But there are certain words and phrases which we can use as indicators of conclusion of an argument such as:

Therefore For this (or these) reason(s)
Hence It follows that
So I conclude
Accordingly Which shows
Consequently Which means
Proves that Which entails
As a result Which implies
Thus Which allows us to infer that
Which points to the conclusion that
We may infer etc.

Some of the words and phrases are used to mark the premises of an argument and are called premise indicators. Usually, but not always, what follows any one of these will be the premise of an argument. Such as:

Since As indicated by
Because The reason is that
For For the reason that
As May be inferred from
Follows from May be derived from
As shown by May be deduced from
In as much as In view of the fact that