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🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences
🎨 Impressions
How I Discovered It
Who Should Read It?
☘️ How the Book Changed Me
How my life / behaviour / thoughts / ideas have changed as a result of reading the book.
✍️ My Top 3 Quotes
📒 Ideas
Main thing in any argument
- It is essential to understand that argument, without clear goal in mind is useless affair.
- The main goals for any argument are only these two.
- Validating personal position.
- Invalidating opponent’s position.
- For this we have to set up a clear thesis of the argument. ^bb7e4f
- In a way that it both understood and accepted.
- To do this, three steps are often enough, but not everyone goes this length.
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- All words in the statement hold same meaning for opposing sides.
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- Next step would be the drawing of the borders.
- Are we talking about all objects that are included in the category of the argument, or some portion of it.
- Like, assertion that “All people are evil”.
- Is it really all, or only some of them?
- This point often is called defining the quantifiers of the thesis.
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- And the last comes our attitude towards thesis.
- Do we accept it as false or true, or maybe partially true or partially false.
- Level of certainty is also of importance.
- Possible or impossible, etc.
- This last point is called modality of the argument.
- This is what we really mean when we speak about attitude towards argument.
- The main goals for any argument are only these two.
On evidence and argumentation and connection between one and the other
- Several conditions must be fulfilled for a successful resolution of a dispute.
- First and foremost, the point of an argument must be valid for both sides.
- Statements of arguments and counterarguments should be done simply and clearly.
- Act according to the Occam’s razor. Occam’s razor principle
- The most crucial point is the existence of the connection between the topic of the debate and arguments.
- If there is no connection between the two, then there is nothing to prove.
- Thought it couldn’t be seen as obvious, subtle also works.
Mistakes in proof can happen
- Usually there is three main suspects.
- In thesis itself. Sometime the topic of the argument saying the least controversial.
- In Argument. When we prove from the false premise or with the help of random argument that needs to be proved itself.
- And in the connection between one and another. As I’ve mentioned it is the most crucial point, the connection between the topic and the arguments.