Argument Structure Question 4

Started by JazaneElaine · started 2022-09-05 22:31 · last activity 2022-09-08 01:01 · 1 reply

How do you know when you're looking for an answer to an unstated argument?

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  1. Emil-Kunkin · 2022-09-08 01:01

    Hi JazaneElaine, I don't think we are looking exactly at an unstated argument, but rather, at a potential weakness. We are trying to justify this fine on alarms, so what could telling us that burglar alarms are effective do? This does require a bit of creative thinking, but since we know that they are effective, then we certainly shouldn't ben them outright. More generally, if a part of an argument seems to be preemptively plugging a gap, we could treat it as a rebuttal to a possible counterargument.

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