The first thing I learned about in chapter six was compound claims. It makes complete sense. In the lawn mower example, you have two claims but since you are only going to end up getting one its compound. Just like a compound word. You have two words put together but word count does not say “2” it says “1.” After that came a lot of terms that started with the letter “c” that I got all mixed up. What I did get a hold of was the slippery slope argument. It is easy to notice this type of argument because it is a bad argument; it goes on and on with a bunch of conditionals and at least one of them is false. The two examples in the book were also simple. This concept is also easy to understand because it does not have another side to it, like conditional claim and contradictory of a conditional.
Exactly. I really like how you compare the concept of a compound claim to a compound word. It's pretty much the same concept. Just the same idea as compounding two things. To clear things up with conditional claims and contradictory of a conditional claim, just think "A" and the opposite of "A". If those equations are confusing, ignore it, it probably just helps some people (like the ones good at math haha). Anyways, a conditional claim is a claim that says if one thing happens, then this will be the effect. You can remember it as "in the CONDITION of this, this will happen. The contradictory is pretty much saying "in the CONDITION of this, this will NOT happen"
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