Thursday, February 11, 2010
Tests for an Argument to be Good
My example argument: I like my mom’s cooking. My friends and family like my mom’s cooking. Everyone I know likes my mom’s cooking. Using the three tests for an argument to be good I am going to analyze my argument. The first test is, is the premise plausible? Yes, it is true that I personally like my mom’s cooking and my friends and family like it as well. The premise is more plausible than the conclusion is for the reason that it is near impossible that everyone I know, from my teachers, to coworkers to fellow classmates (to just name a few) has tried my mom’s cooking. All though it is possible that if these people had a chance they to would like my mom’s cooking doesn’t make the conclusion of my argument true. The second test, are the premises more plausible than the conclusion? Yes the premises are more plausible than the conclusion. As I have stated before it is almost impossible for everyone I know to have tried my mom’s cooking. Unless I carried around samples of my mom’s cooking and had very single person I met try it there is very few ways that everyone I know to try my mom’s cooking. And with our technology world it makes that method even more unlikely to work. I can’t feed Ms. Perez a sample of my mom’s cooking through a blog post, making my premises that my friends and family and myself like my mom’s cooking more plausible than the conclusion that everyone I know. The third test is, is the argument valid or strong? My argument is a weak argument, because my premises don’t include the majority of the people I know, classmates, coworkers, superiors, acquaintances I have from the gym, my favorite restaurant, and through my friends. So, everyone to know my mom does have amazing cooking skills :)
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I think that you did a really good job explaining this subject matter. Your example really helped me to understsnd what exactly it was that the question was asking and saying. I dont know if its just me but I had to read this section multiple times in order to really understand it. I think that some of this reading is a little intense and that there is a lot of information to take in in a single chapter, do you feel the same way?
ReplyDeleteAnyway I just wanted to tell you that I think you did a very good job with this question.You made a good example and did a good job explaining the answer to each question and you helped me to understand it better, thank you.
Agreeing with hard at work, you did a very good job explaining this article. The author really nailed it with the three tests needed to decipher whether it is a good argument or a weak one. Having a strong conclusion is an important part of having a strong argument because it is always important to finish strong to make the argument more believable. This article was overall very compelling to read and i found this piece of information to be very useful. Good job DeAnn!
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