Tuesday March 29:
In this Chapter we overlook the stucture of arguments to see if they are facicious, or resonable. We first foucus on steotyping or gerneralizing. That most of us draw a conclution to fast on sometimes unrelivent facts and material."From a spoonfull of soup, we conclude just how salty the whole bowl will be after numerous bad experiences with an airline, we decide to book future flights with a competitor."pg 372. Also sterotyping. "Women are bad bosses."pg 372. both examples are unreasonable facts and they jump to concultions.
We then foucus on making assumptions. The deffintion is a claim that is taken to be true. In my own personal oppinion we do this all the time, and i know i do. Somone states a claim and their agrument behind it and we foucus so much on what they have to say that we dont even think about it being a real fact. somtimes we take this fact and hold on to it assuming its true for a later argument.A exellent example is " Vilent crime in increasing. Therefore, we should vigorously enforce the death penalty."pg 375.
Also when we are making claims and creating an argument we have to take into consideration of others emotions. We can hurt and move alot of people with so little words, and thats somthing to watchout for.
This chapter i learned alot about creating arguments, and what to watchout for. The one thing i will defidently take from this chapter is when people are making a statment and turning it into an argument watch for if they are really talking about fact, or if it is just a claim. Also i will watch just how i will state my words so that others will not only get offended and hurt but they may see another side of a situation.
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