Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Question 1
The concept that I found interesting and useful in chapter eight would have to be section C. This section of the chapter titled, Between One and All, breaks down the difference between precise generalities and vague generalities. The part on precise generalities I found to be really helpful and it was quite easy to understand the concept that they were discussing. They told you how to make a statement with out making a weak and/ or not valid statement. We can see these type of statements all the time. For example, after a test teachers tend to tell the class a percentage of people who got A’s and B’s. but you can not take that statement and then say that means my friend in the same class got a A. You can not state this to be true because there is that remainder percentage that she did not get that grade.
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The topic you chose to talk about was interesting to me too. It showed me how to figure out which generalities were precise and which were vague. I thought the section that discussed the precise generalities was helpful and easy too. I agree that we see these kinds of statements all the time. I thought the vague generality section was pretty interesting but not as easy as the precise generality part. I really like your example because it was easy to relate to. Teachers giving out grade percentages mean that certain people automatically received the grade that they assumed they would get.
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