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| 08 Sep 2014 03:04 PM |
1.Brainstorm reasons a particular claim may and may not be true.[1] For any particular topic, whether you've chosen it, been assigned it, or just feel like arguing it informally for no particular reason, generate as many arguments for and against a particular claim as possible. Eventually, you'll want to have a nuanced and complicated argument about a topic. Before you do that, though, you'll need to have some sense of the logical scope of the topic.
Say you're debating the general issue of price floors with someone. The base level of the argument is whether you're "against" price floors or "for" price floors, but really the issue is much more complicated than that. Before you even think about "choosing a side," start generating some probing questions that will narrow the issue and force you to define the terms. What is meant by "Price floors"? What is the scope of the argument, legally and geographically? What does it mean to be "for" it? What would it mean to be "against" it? Why might someone be for it? Why might someone be against it?
2.Start backing up those reasons with evidence. But, wait--you may be asking: Why research the evidence for claims you may not even be making? Researching the evidence for both sides of an issue will be an integral part both of understanding, structuring, and eventually making the argument, regardless of which "side" you're going to defend. Think of it more as researching a topic and less of making an argument at this point.
3.Learn to ask "Why?" and "How?" For every claim you generate, qualify it by asking why and how that claim operates. Why was the second amendment written? How does it operate today? Why is it an important consideration?
...Or if everything else fails, just say "GET OUT" like everyone else does here.
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| 08 Sep 2014 03:10 PM |
@Pika
Have you ever read a book? Or anything else similar? I don't think so. |
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| 08 Sep 2014 03:11 PM |
Oh boy I'm about to argue on an arguing forum, the irony.
Yes, I have read many books before. I actually get called out for it a lot as a "nerd". Please learn2insult you twit.
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| 08 Sep 2014 03:14 PM |
yOu ShOuLdN't ChAlLeNgE a VeTeRaN rTeR sIs It AiN't SmArT, y'KnOw? I bElIvE iN MIRACLES |
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| 08 Sep 2014 03:16 PM |
@pika
First of all, Arguments and arguing is not the same thing.
Second,I wasn't insulting you.
And third, here is a quote from some famous youtuber.
-"If you want to call someone twit, don't type like a twit"
By the way learn2insult could be just translated as Learn to insult. I don't think you read that much. |
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