Sentence examples for ordinary argument from inspiring English sources

Most authors (e.g., Govier 1999 and Hitchcock 2002) have rejected the suggestion that we should broaden our definitions to make dialectical obligations a necessary component of an argument, but now grant that some accounting of the dialectical aspects of argumentative exchange must be an integral part of any comprehensive understanding of ordinary argument.

"A spate of shootings can often begin from an ordinary argument between two guys about a girlfriend, and because some of these men are involved in the drug economy they have the weapons to protect themselves.

Other aspects of ordinary argument which extend the scope of informal logic are dialectical.

This is a conception of good argument which can be applied to many instances of ordinary argument, but there are many situations in which the success and failure of arguments may be measured in other ways.

And the mechanism that connects weak gun laws to gun murders and massacres is self-evident: with guns around, ordinary arguments escalate into ones where someone gets killed, and crazy kids who dream of getting even with the world can easily find a gun — or, like Adam Lanza, many guns — to do it with.

Certainly it must be said that appeals to emotion and character play a significant role in ordinary arguments that occur in social, moral and political contexts.

In assessing ordinary arguments, these issues can be avoided by understanding fallacies more simply, as common patterns of faulty reasoning which can usefully be identified in the evaluation of informal arguments.

In a bid to counter the "my Jack's too bright for an ordinary school" argument, the government introduced a £29m programme for "gifted and talented" children, appropriately known as "G&Ts".

This is an ordinary language argument, and as such it might not be very strong.

An ordinary language argument for the existence of Fs goes as follows.

The second of the two texts just cited even gives a curious "ordinary language" argument, appealing to the rusticus (the man-on-the-street), who, if you were to say to him "What I am saying is false," would reply "Nil dicis" ("You are saying nothing").