Claims

Chapter six I learned a lot about the dynamics of claims and how they can help or hinder your argument.  One thing I learned this chapter is compound claims. “A compound claim is composed of other claims but has to be seen as just one claim “(Epstein).  An example of this would be when someone says “Either all cars have four wheels or a moped is now a car”.  It is a compound claim because it has two clams be view as one big claim.  Another concept I learned in this chapter is the concept of a contrapositive. A contrapositive is when a claim is made and you say a statement equal to the claim but in a different way. An example of this would be if someone said “ If you drove a Camaro before your life you are awesome” then the contrapositive would be “ Your life must be awesome you drove a Camaro”. These concepts helped me better understand claims and the types of claims there are witch will be useful in arguments later.