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How do you evaluate the merits of an argument?
by strangeattractr 6y ago
How do you evaluate the merits of an argument?
- cool_dude85 6y agoCritical thinking, reasoning skills, historical and subject knowledge. I'm sure you could think of more techniques if you put your mind to it.
- strangeattractr 6y agoNo those are just tools, you evaluate an argument based on the chain of reasoning from premise to conclusion. Critical thinking is how you produce an apparent contradiction in an argument. Once you put this to the person articulating an argument, given all arguments are articulated by people, and they cannot provide a counterpoint to make the chain of reasoning logically sound. You have to reject that argument or else there is no point in arguing - there are no grounds to reject an argument. That it is possible there exists a potential argument that links the premise to the same conclusion doesn't save the particular argument presented. Being right for the wrong reasons is still being wrong.