Friday, October 8, 2010
Chapter 7
Chapter 7 is very informative chapter in a sense that it is basically the introduction to counter arguments during a debate type argument. In this chapter I learned about raising objections and refuting an argument. When we raise an objection, we are trying to convince others that the argument that was raised by our opponent is a faulty one. We show how the argument is weak, such as stating whether or not it is subjective or showing whether the argument is dubious or not. I also learned in this chapter that there are two ways of refuting an argument. There is refuting directly and refuting indirectly. Refuting directly consist of the method that we show the premise is dubious, show the argument to be weak, and show the conclusion to be false. (pg 149) We use indirect refutation in the case that we cannot exactly show that the premise is false but we can sense that the argument is weak or faulty.
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First of all good post about chapter 7. Even though it was a shorter chapter then 6 you gave a good description within a paragraph then a chapter. It felt like reading a good summary of what you thought were the main points to the chapter.when you put refuting an argument let the reader to know that the premises is dubious therefore it is a weak argument. What I liked about what you learned about chapter 7 was that it was short and to the point. Also you quoted from the book and wrote the page number you got it from.
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