The former demonstrates how to construct arguments for a position one has already decided to adopt; the latter shows how to detect weaknesses in the arguments of others.
"Studying law teaches you how to construct arguments, think critically and challenge policy – all valuable skills needed for a career in politics," says Megan Carrick, a law student at the University of Kent.
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.
The exam board will also reduce the marks given for students' ability to critique and construct arguments, and more marks will be given for simply knowing the theories involved.
In 2008, his debaters became the first top-tier team to switch entirely to electronic documents; they file research, construct arguments and read speeches in tournaments off of laptops.
From cogency alone one can construct arguments for the various elements of probabilism.
The aim is to construct arguments which non-theists can reasonably claim to have no more reason to accept than the original Ontological Arguments themselves.
Just as the aim of the geometer is to solve geometrical problems (construct figures or prove theorems), so too Aristotle was concerned to solve logical problems (construct arguments or prove propositions).
The basic idea is to construct arguments in favor and against a statement, to select the "acceptable" ones and, finally, to determine whether the original statement can be accepted or not.
Earlier research studies by researchers such as Sampson and Clark (2008) also shared the significance of providing conceptual scaffolds and Chin (2006) showed how question prompts in the form of question webs could be used to help students to construct arguments.
