Determine Whether the Following Passage Is (Or Contains) an Argument

question 17

Short Answer

Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument.
Some would prefer to say that every human being is both a body and a mind. Bodies are in space and subject to the mechanical laws that govern all other bodies in space. But minds are not in space, nor are their operations subject to mechanical laws. Bodily processes and states can be inspected by external observers, but the workings of one mind are not witnessable by other observers. And so a person lives through two collateral histories; but the actual transactions between the episodes of the private history and those of the public history remain mysterious, since by definition they can belong to neither series.
-Adapted from Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind

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Definitions:

Verbal Cues

Nonverbal signals, such as tone, pace, and volume of speech, that are used in communication to convey meaning or emphasize a message.

Prospective Memory

The aspect of memory that involves remembering to perform a planned action or recall a planned intention at a future point in time.

Procedural Memory

A type of long-term memory that enables people to perform tasks without consciously thinking about them, such as riding a bicycle.

Implicit Memory

A type of memory in which previous experiences aid in the performance of a task without conscious awareness of these previous experiences.