Thursday, May 13, 2010
3 premises needed
When dealing with generalizations it is important to understand that you are still making an argument, it may not seem like you are but think about it you are making assumptions about a larger population or group based on your knowledge and information that you have gathered so you are arguing your point. So when you here generalizations you can examine them and evaluate them the same way you would any other argument claim made. You would examine and evaluate the generalization based on what we have learned over the semester such as is it too vague or does the premises followed by the conclusion, etc. Because generalizations are arguments it is important to know that there are three premises needed for a good generalization argument. These three premises that are need are the following: first, the sample has to be representative, second the sample has to be big enough, and third the sample has to be studied well.
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