Subjective and Objective

One subject i feel that was really interesting this semester was subjective and objective claims. I feel like it was something that we briefly went over but since i enjoyed learning about it so much, i have decided to talk about it in my final blog post of the semester. A subjective claim is a calim that is made that depends on somebody's opinion to decide whether it is true or false. An objective claim is a claim that is true or false based on factual evidence and needs no one persons opinion to decide whether it is true or false. That is the majr diference between the two. I think the excercises that we had to do while reading the section were very good and helpful because they made us decide whether or not the claims being made were subjective or objective. They were very helpful excercises and made everything about the subject much easier to understand and since it was easy to understand, it made it a much more likeable subject to study.

What I Learned Throughout the Course

What have i learned during this class this semester? Where do i start? I learned pretty much everything i need to know about group communication. I am sure there is still quite a good amount of group communication that was not taught in this class but i feel like we went over a very large amount of different things throughout the semester. Even though it is an online comm class, it feels like it was still very helpful in teaching me about group communication. I may not know everything there is to know about group comm but i know that i know a lot more about it now than before starting this class and i feel like if i continue to study the material it will help me even more. In this class, my two favorite topics were probably arguments and claims. Especially subjetive and objective claims. It was good to learn about what they are and how they may apply to group comm. A good example would be for our group facilitation paper. I learned a lot throughout this class and that is for sure.

Generalizing

Going into this, i thought i knew what generalizing was but it was a little different than i had thought. We are generalizing if we conclude that a claim about a group, the population, from a claim about some part of it, the sample. To generalize is to make an argument. Sometimes the general claim that is the conclusion is called the generalization, sometimes we use that word for the whole arguement. Plausible premises about the sample are called the inductive eveidence for the generalization. That is how the book chooses to explain this subject. Before i read this, i had a good idea of what a generalization was. I always thought that it was kind of like putting a whole group of people together just because they have one thing in common. Turns out i was pretty much right because after reading this ection, not too much of it was different than what i thought it was prior to reading it. It was a very interesting section and i enjoyed it.

Question #3

For the third and final discussion question this week, we had to pick a section that we had not yet discussed from the reading. This week, we could pretty much choose any section because the first two questions were about things that we could find online. I chose to talk about cause and effect and the normal conditions. I know at times during the semester in this class, we have definitely talked about cause and effect so there isn't much else to say with that topic. I wanted to mostly talk about normal conditions because that is something that hasnt really been brought up yet. For a casual claim, normal conditions are the obvious as well as the plausible unstated claims that are needed to make sure that the relationship between the purported cause and the purported effect is valid or strong. I thought this concept was relatively simple to understand. After going over it a few times of course. It was a very interesting subject and i definitely learned a lot.