You are having a discussion which then gets slight more heated and becomes an argument.
You listen to the person making her points, and you can see her various kinds of argumentative solecisms. Although, replete with self bias you are not so observant about your own argumentative solecisms.
Arguments may be bad because they are invalid – that is, the conclusions don’t follow from the premises – or because they’re unsound: the premises are false.
If the problem is that they are unsound, then the premises’ lack of truth is not remedied by acknowledging the fact and retooling them as optative rather than indicative claims.
Similarly, arguments are valid or invalid regardless of whether or not their premises are true, in which case the sociological accuracy of their claims ought to be beside the point.
You listen to the person making her points, and you can see her various kinds of argumentative solecisms. Although, replete with self bias you are not so observant about your own argumentative solecisms.
Arguments may be bad because they are invalid – that is, the conclusions don’t follow from the premises – or because they’re unsound: the premises are false.
If the problem is that they are unsound, then the premises’ lack of truth is not remedied by acknowledging the fact and retooling them as optative rather than indicative claims.
Similarly, arguments are valid or invalid regardless of whether or not their premises are true, in which case the sociological accuracy of their claims ought to be beside the point.
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