Tuesday, March 23, 2010
General Claims
In chapter 8 of the Epstein book chapter 8 talks about many useful ideas that are helpful with communication. In section A which is General Claims and Their Contradictories they discuss how some arguments can sound valid but when in reality they are not. We find out the uses of "All" and "Some" as well as "No" and "Only". All of these words have meanings when you use them in a statement. An example that we all have heard one time or another in our lives is "All girls are drama queens", now all is meaning all girls, with no exceptions but we all know in reality not all girls are drama queens. I know in my life I have definitely met a few girls who are but I can safely say not everyone is. Another example using a different world would be "Some girls are drama queens". This statement is a little bit better because it is focusing on a small group of girls who are "drama queens". Some means at least one but not all so this is a much better word to use instead of all in this statement.
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The blog that you did for general claim using the words all and some was very good. It was easy very to read and to understand the concept of all, some, no and only. The Critical Thinking book made the concept about general claims too complicated to understand and I had a hard time understanding what it was talking about. The way that you laid put the information down and then used the example helped me a lot. Using the two different examples was good as well. If you did understand what the “all” concept meant then you back it up the “some” example. Fortunately I think that everyone as run into one or two “drama queens” in their lives. Also putting in the definition within the example was a different idea. The definitions also made it clear on how “all” and “some” were used. Other than that the post were very good.
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