The concept I thought was the most interesting would have to be the cause and effect in the Epstein text. To determine a cause and effect first you need to be able to determine the cause of the problem. Like for example: I trip on a bark and broke my leg. The cause would be tripping on a bark and the effect would then be a broken leg. To determine that this is a clam we must find the relationship between them. Because I tripped on the bark it, I broke my leg. If I did not trip I would not have broken my leg. The relationship is that the premises and conclusion are valid and strong arguments. Cause and effect is used quite often in today’s worlds. When something happens there is always something affected. This is a great concept to learn when writing any type of argument or claim because there will always be a cause and effect.
The cause and effect was interesting in the Epstein text. Cause and effect is used in everyday life of course. Because it happens so often, we should have some general knowledge about cause and effect. So much of what we do is based on the concept of cause and effect. The example you used was very affective and helped me understand further this idea of cause and effect. It seems strange as to why we should learn about cause and effect. It should be something that we should not have to learn about, yet we need to learn about it so that we can form good argumnets and claims, just like what you wrote about on your blog.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you. I found Epstein’s text on cause and effect interesting as well. It is really amazing how the cause and effect concept is used everyday. I found the Criteria for cause and effect very useful too. They are: 1.
ReplyDelete1. The cause happened (the claim describing it is true)
2. The effect happened (the claim describing it is true)
3. The cause precedes the effect
4. It is (Nearly) impossible for the cause the happen (be true) and effect not to happen (be false), given the normal conditions.
5. The cause makes a difference-if the cause had not happened (been true), the effect would not have happened (been true)
6. There is no common cause