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PHI332 : The Class : Argument ID : Discount Words
You know how to diagram logical structure; you are working on the skill of finding what is and is not an argument in a passage. One helpful technique is to notice discount words.
A discount word connects two statements. The author admits both statements
are true, but wants us to weigh one statement against the other and tells us
which one must be discounted or disregarded, even though it is true. You will
indicate which statement is discounted by drawing a line through it (under Format
on your toolbar, click on Font, then find the "Strikethrough" option).
You strike through the discount word and the statement that is discounted. Or
you could use your drawing toolbar and draw a line through it. Here is the important
point about discounted statements: they will never be a premise or conclusion.
That's why we draw a line through them!
To complete this topic successfully, do as many of the following exercises as you find necessary to acquire the relevant skill. You have acquired the relevant skill when your answers to exercises are reliably either the same as the given answers or are alternative answers you can explain and defend:
ASSIGNMENT
1: Exercise2.8.1
ASSIGNMENT
2: Exercise2.8.2
ASSIGNMENT
3: Exercise2.8.3
ASSIGNMENT
4: Exercise2.8.4
ASSIGNMENT
5: Exercise2.8.5
Go on to Topic
9: Background Information
or
Go back to Argument
ID
E-mail George Rudebusch at George.Rudebusch@nau.edu
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