3) Pick one concept from throughout the semester that you feel can use further discussion.
One concept that I feel could be elaborated on more in the semester is compound claims- the whole chapter. There was a lot of information in that chapter whether it be about the contradictory of a claim or conditional claims or contrapositive or denying the antecedent or slippery slope argument or reasoning from hypothesis. All of chapter 6 was very important and good information to know.
I feel that a lot of the concepts in this chapter are easy to understand however they can be confusing because some definitions are very similar. Also, the reasoning in a chain and slippery slope section is very interesting to me and I would have liked to do more exercises on it or something like that.
The part that was most confusing for me that could use further discussion is the section of valid and weak forms of arguments using conditionals. This part has 4 different ways of evaluations whether the argument is valid or weak by using conditionals.
Hello Mary!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was blogging about this subject, I could not think of subjects that needed to be elaborated on more. However, after reading this post I agree that chapter 6 was tough to understand. For me, a lot of the material in chapter 6 needed to be read multiple times to understand; especially the section on conditional claims. Also, I thought the slippery slope section was a little confusing.
But with all of the material that we covered in our class, I felt everything was explained pretty well. In my mind, if it was tough for me to think of a part that was too difficult, or needed further discussion, then it all must have not been that bad. Anyways, Great post and congratulations on almost being done with class!!