Friday, September 10, 2010
Strong arguments
All good speeches or arguments give good reasons to believe that the statement or argument is true. A good argument not only brings up a good argument but also proves to the listener that the argument is true in any case. An example of this is “Fossil fuels will be irrelevant in the future”. This agreement has something all good arguments have a plausible claim. A plausible claim is a claim that as the listener can believe. This claim is believable because we see every car company and alternative energy company trying or actually eliminating fossil fuels from their products. This makes the more argument believable and relevant so the cant proves the argument a fallacy. You can also prove this argument right by begging a question and then proving that question to be right. An example of this would be, MAN “Fossils fuels will be irrelevant in the future” WOMAN “No they won’t because they are our main source of energy” MAN “will it be forever” Woman “I don’t know but I believe so” Man “Why I should believe you?”, the man proved his argument to be true just by proving the other was a fallacy. A argument must be believable to be taken seriously.
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I like how you incorporated begging the question in your example. This fallacy is a waste of an argument because there is no closure. They just keep going in circles about whether or not fossil fuels will be relevant. Especially when the woman says “I believe so.” This shows that she is using her own opinions and therefore there is no way to prove anything so the argument will continue to go in circles and therefore is a fallacy. “An argument begs the question if one of its premises is no more plausible than the conclusion” (Epstein). Good job using this as an example. However, I was a little confused on if you were saying begging the question is good…because that wouldn’t make sense, but if you meant it as an example of how it is bad then great job!
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