Saturday, March 6, 2010
Repairing Arguments.
When people are speaking on a social basis, they do not pay attention to the precise detail of creating a strong or even valid argument. Through normal conversation its hard to think through all the premises and valid conclusions and so on. As an example, after a party scenario, somebody would say "hey, Tom was drinking last night, now he has a headache, so that means he has a hangover. This claim would work but is would be a very weak argument. what if he hit his head while drunk and woke up with a headache? there are many other scenarios that could have that would have cause Tom's hangover. Through meaning of repairing arguments, more premises would have to be added to fix this problem. such as "Tom is a lightweight and doesn't drink before." Or "Tom has a history of hangovers when he drinks" In conclusion, this would fix the claim and make it valid
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