Appeal to Emotion- FEAR!!!!!!

The Appeal to Emotion that I wanted to talk about is the Appeal to Fear! Fear is such a major thing that motivates people to do things or not do things. This appeal strikes because a Appeal to Fear can get you to do almost anything. For instance when I was a little kid I would always make funny faces to my mom when she was talking to someone. And she finally started telling me to be careful because your face might stick like that! Now this scared me because I did not want my face to look like that permintily just long enough to make my mom annoyed (I know I was a nice little girl). So I stopped doing it! I like appeal to fear because it can shoe you a lot about the person giving the appeal and a lot about the audience that is receiving It.!

Precise and Vague Generalities!

Something that I found interesting would be Chapter 8 section 3. This was about Precise and Vague Generalities.

Let me start off by explaining what a Precise Generality is. Precise Generality is when a claim states a specific number or quantity. For example: There were a hundred bars of chocolate on the counter. This would be an example of a Precise Generality claim.

Next I would like to explain what a Vague Generality.. A Vague Generality is a claim that does not specify a precise number . An example of this would be: There are a whole bunch of chocolate bars sitting on the counter.

As you can see, there are a huge difference between a Vague Generality and a Precise Generality. Utilizing the correct form of generality, could make the difference between a strong or a weak argument.

Next time you are making an argument, make sure you are using the form of generality the best supports your argument.

Contradictories, Contraries, and Subcontraries! Oh My!!

One concept that I found really interesting was in the Aristotelian logic chapter. I the concept was Contradictories, Contraries, and Subcontraries.

Contradictories: are two claims that in every circumstance have opposite truth values.

Contraries: are two claims that there is no way that both claims could be true together.

Subcontraries: are two claims that there is no possible way that both claims could be false.

I found these terms and concepts very interesting because people when they talk or even argue with each other use them all the time. If you listen to peoples conversations (not in the creep way) you will hear these being used.

For instants I heard a mother telling her daughter you are my #1 favorite then she turned to her son and said you are my #1 favorite! That right there shows you the concept of Contraries! These concepts are all around us we just have to listen in and be aware even when we are talking we all do it!

All and Some!

When it comes to chapter 8 the thing that I found most interesting was the talk about all and some!

All means every single one with no exceptions. Some words that you can substitute for the word all and still mean the same thing are Every, Everything, and every one.

Some means that the statement includes at least one or more of the subjects. Some words that you can substitute for some and still mean the same thing are at lest one and as I know of.

Application to everyday life! Well I have great story that heard to day. So I was working freshmen orientation today and I heard a young freshmen say that ALL of the classes were full. No I know that a lot of the class’s are full but they are not all full. I think this is a great example of the differences between All and some!

Refuting Indirectly!

For my final post of this week I want to talk about Refuting Indirectly. I want to talk about this because it happens all the time. People refute arguments all the time, but most of the time they don’t know what they ar refuting just that they are refuting it! And that my dear friends is refuting indirectly!

So let me give you a example when someone gives a argument that is “the polar ice caps are melting because of the greenhouse gases and the whale hunting” now a person that refuting indirectly would say “ that’s not why they are melting” they used or gave us no reason why they just know that something is wrong with that arguments so they have to refute it.

Im sure that if you listen to conversations all around you, you will hear all the time people indirectly refuting arguments all the time. I dear you to find one today!

Raising Objections!

In this Post the topic I want to talk about Raising Objections! (Chapter 7 section A)

Raising objections is a common thing that you here when people are trying to defend them self’s or some thing that they believe in.

According to Epstein raising objections is a way to show that an argument is bad. It dose this by showing that it is weak and calls in to question on of the premise’s

One why to illustrate this in everyday life is using an example of a discussion some of my friends had! One friend said that all women like chocolate! Now this statement set my other friend off! She came back and said well what about the people that are allergic or don’t like the taste or can’t eat it for health reasons? So no not all women like chocolate!

This is I prime example of raising objections, its showed how it called in to question the statement made and made the argument weak!

The Contradictory of a claim

In site of our papers I thought that I should talk about chapter 6 section A2, Contradictory of a Claim!

The Contradictory of a claim according to Epstein is “ a claim that has the opposite truth-value in all possible circumstances” I thought this would be perfect to look at since part of our paper is on the contradictory of a claim. So in words the contradictory of a claim is the negation to a claim, it’s basically the opposite!

You hear contradictory of a claim all the time in everyday life. When people argue and even on paper and in books. I can think of one that two of my friends said yesterday! One friend said that she “got to meet will smith while she was in Hollywood” and then the other fried said “you did not get to meet will smith while you were in Hollywood”

That right there shows you that there are in everyday speech you hear them all the time and never notice it. The next time that you are talking with someone listen, you might be surprised in what you hear!