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How To Understand Arguments
How To Understand Arguments
authoritative
Assure cites an authority that the audience shares as an
reflexive authority with the other person
Positive words with positive words it's talking about yourself
won't be better used in common speech to get you to agree with them by making a
conditional abuse that applies to you only if you don't
abusive agree with them
Positive words with negative words Way of using words Evaluation
Good meaning How to Understand Arguments somebody might question it
when
the audience accepts the authority that is being referred to
Slanting
without having reason for the evaluation too much trouble
All
Decrease the level of our words Most
Citing the possible objection in order to reject it or Guarding
Many
count it
Some
you can defend your premises How
Discounting Extend
Still Making the premises weaker Show the opponents that they’re false
It's when you use the word still at the beginning of
For example so that your point will be hard to deny
the sentence Purpose
1.They assert two claims Discounting words
But
2.They contrast those two claims Although
3.They emphasize one of the claims
use them in order to head off objections