Argument Structure Question 4
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JazaneElaine
· started 2022-09-05 22:31
· last activity 2022-09-08 01:01
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How do you know when you're looking for an answer to an unstated argument?
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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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