Friday, February 12, 2010
The Three Tests..
In order for an argument to be considered a good one, it needs to be able to pass three tests. The first test is to figure out if the premises are plausible. The second, is to find out if the promises are more plausible than the conclusion. The third and final test is to find out if the argument is valid or strong. An example that I came up with is this: I have two dogs. This morning when I got up to give them water and food, I found my two dogs and five puppies. Therefore, one of my dogs had puppies. My example passes the first test because it is believable that I have two dogs. It also passes the second test because it is more believable that I have two dogs since you can see them with your own eyes, then the fact that one of my dogs had puppies since they just appeared over night. Lastly, my example also passes the third and final test because my argument is considered to be a strong one. This means that my argument is a good one if the premise is true.
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I really like the example you used. It is a very good argument because anyone would have good reason to believe that argument is true. There is really no reason at all to believe that the argument you were making is false. It clearly passes all three of the tests that needed to be passed to prove that it was truly a good argument. The way you used dogs having puppies as your example was very good as well. I think it was something that was very easy for the people reading it to understand and i think most people can probably relate to that situation.
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