Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Further Discussion
So far, after reading Epstein's book, i realize that there are many things that seem confusing because when one chapters talks about lets say premises, it jumps to conclusion out of no where. I did some researching and found a website where it describes in detail what an argument is and how we can pinpoint them, because i know that some people read a chapter of Epstein and they are like, what is this guy talking about? On www.about.com under "what is an argument?", it shows an article about understanding premises, inferences, and conclusions. I find that this website really helped me because to be honest, i was puzzled after reading what Epstein had said. This website helped by breaking down into little parts of understanding premises and how it is used inside a sentence. I believe that if a beginner learning critical thinking and how to create arguments can find this website really useful for them. Not only does this website explains on how to understand premises and so forth, it gives us examples so when we are reading a newspaper ad or article, we can pinpoint easily what the premise and conclusion is.
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I think it was a very good concept to go back and discuss. Since arguments are the base of the what we learn, it is very important to fully understand what the concept of arguments. It was really helpful that the site broke down different concepts like premises, inferences, and conclusions. I think it is a very good idea to get understand every single part of argument, especially when developing strong arguments. If you know all the basics part of an argument, you are then able to develop more on the claims to make your argument stronger. So I thought it was a good idea to further discuss this.
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