Argument

The topic for this weeks discussion is to define an argument and decide if an argument is successful or unsuccessful. There are many types of arguments but in general, an argument is a debate between people with opposing opinions, facts, or statements that can be resolved with clear evidence. An argument is successful if the person making a claim offers trustworthy evidence that is true and valid about the topic that will convince the other party to accept his/her viewpoint or even take the…

In chapter 3 “The Layout of Arguments” of The Uses of Argument, Toulmin talks about how to write an argument. He includes several models throughout the chapter, and each of them gets longer as he begins to discuss more. The final model is composed of datum or data, claim, warrant, qualifiers, rebuttal, backing of warrants. Datum is the fact or the ground that start the argument, while claim is the statement that one can reason out from the datum, and hopes that people will accept it. Warrant is…

of a cogent argument. An argument is defined as cogent if the premises of that argument are rationally acceptable, and that they also provide rational support for the conclusion. For this assignment, the task on hand is to determine whether each dialogue meets the challenges of an argument. In total, there are three dialogues that will be analyzed. In order for a dialogue to be accepted as a challenge of an…

0236566 In this squib, I criticize Norcross’ argument for the claim that Fred would still be acting immoral if he hired someone else to torture the puppies. I then argue that the second premise of Norcross’ target argument is false by providing an objection. My objection shows that there is a situation in which the action itself is immoral, but hiring someone to do it is not immoral. Now I will present Norcross’ target argument in standard form, for the claim that hiring someone else to torture…

that you are dreaming right now. You can’t rule out the possibility that you are dreaming right now. Therefore, you can’t know that you are reading this paper right now.” This argument may seem absolutely insane, but as you read through this paper, you will begin to understand what this argument means and who uses the argument. To begin, I will explain skepticism about the external world. An external world skeptic claims that we cannot know anything about the external world because there are…

I took a lot of interest in various types of arguments and assignments. What caught my interest in this subject is how, as a writer, one has to argue from both sides, include research data to support them, and then conclude them with a winning argument. My collection of persuasive writing demonstrates that I succeeded at the data, logic, argument, and other aspects of each paper. Now, I am able to collect, interpret, and use the data to fit my argument while guiding the essay smoothly toward the…

The Rogerian Argument, coming from Carl Rogers’ theory, is an effective analysis within written arguments. Essentially, it involves adopting the role of a once therapist to aid in solving or coming to a compromise of an issue. The passage “Letter to a Southern Baptist Minister” written by Edward O. Wilson, argues that religion and science could potentially join together. The author uses restatement, which just manipulates the words of the speaker to change their understanding. He proves his…

In the essay “An Argument for Animalism” by Eric T. Olson, he concludes that personal identity is psychological continuity. I will disagree with Olson’s ideas about personal identity in the brain-transplant and the thinking-animal argument. The main point of the paper is about animalism. Olson’s argument is that each one of us is numerically identical to a human animal. Olson says that a person could exist who is not numerically identical to any animal, but it’s not the case for you and I. Olson…

trick, artifice," however, a more specific meaning in logic (a logical fallacy) that dates back to the 1550s means "false syllogism, invalid argumentation." http://pcl.stanford.edu/campaigns/2016/?adv=Donald+Trump%E2%80%99s+Argument+for+America In this ad “Trump Argument for America” supported by Trump campaign was published on November 06 2016. In the ad Trump was attacking his opponent, he used couple of the logical fallacy. 1- False Cause: Mean “ You presumed that a real or perceived…

In his speech Glaucon introduces us to the argument stating his beliefs on why do people created and follow justice. Most of his argument is based on the idea that “the badness of suffering it [injustice] far exceeds the goodness of doing it [justice]” (358 e). He believes that as a consequence of this fact people come to an agreement not to do injustice to avoid suffering it. The people that enter this agreement tend to have experienced both sides, doing injustice and receiving injustice or do…