What was useful in the Mission Critical website was it gave explanations for parts of an argument like statements, vagueness and ambiguity, inference identifiers, and more. It even gave details about arguments that we have discussed in our last participation. The explanations are extremely easy to understand. It also showed the different types of arguments and provided explanations when clicked on. There were also explanations on fallacies. The explanation I liked the most would be the appeal to pity. They called it a sob story, which made it easy to understand. It also stated that it is used to replace logic, rather than to support it. The example they gave was actually easy to relate to: ‘gosh, officer, I know I made an illegal left turn, but please don’t give me a ticket. I’ve had a hard day and I was just trying to get over to my aged mother’s hospital room and spend few minutes with her before I report to my second full0time minimum-wage job, which I have to have as the sole support of the seventeen members of the family.” This is funny because when ever I get pulled over I try to get a sense of pity from the officer to not give me a ticket. I think everyone does that hoping to get away without a ticket.
I agree with you that it was really helpful how the Mission Critical website provided a lot of examples. The examples were clear, and I also liked the fact that the website provided exercises for us to try. We were also able to see if our answers were either correct or wrong, and explained why the answer would be wrong or right. I also agree that the appeal to pity examples were relate-able. They provide real-life examples and how a lot of people show pity when something happens (like how the police officer gave you a ticket and you try to convince him to pity you). That tends to work sometimes =).
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. The Mission Critical website was really helpful with their explanation for each concept and with the exercises, it made it more a little easier to understand how each concept works because it gave you the answer if you get it wrong and explains why. For the vagueness and ambiguous concept, the site's explanation helped me understand the difference between the two. And in my opinion, I think we are living a vague world since people nowadays talk so differently with their slangs. For example, when my friend made a comment about this girl saying, "Damn! She is so bad." What he really meant by bad is that the girl is beautiful and sexy.
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