Joint Support Research Paper

Arguments are when one offers a premise (or premises) to support a conclusion. Two main methods of support are joint and branching. Joint support is when related premises support the conclusion. On their own, each premise is not enough to constitute a valid argument for the conclusion so they have to work together in order for the conclusion to be reached. Branching support is when there are multiple, unrelated premises that lead to the same conclusion. These two types are very different but both are very important for the sake of arguing. Both types of support take multiple premises into account. The difference is that joint support required the premises to be linked together to reach the conclusion while branching support uses separate arguments for independent premises to reach the same conclusion. An example of branching support would …show more content…
However, when you allow the two premises to work together then they make more sense and can lead to the conclusion. This type of support is important because it allows us to use multiple premises to make other premises valid. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to link premises so many would make no sense. Without joint support, this argument would not make sense because it would only be able to be “I always meet my friends for lunch so I will see them at dinner” or “I didn’t see my friends at lunch so I will see them at dinner”. Neither of these arguments make sense so joint support allows us to link the two premises which together make sense and support the