Repairing Arguments

Every time you hear an argument, you should ask yourself if it is a good argument. A lot of people give bad arguments and they are usually pretty easy to spot. The section on repairing arguments was very interesting and it prvided a lot of good examples of arguments that needed to be repaired and how to repair them. An example of an argument that needs to be repaired is No cats sing. So Sylvester does not sing. The only way to make this argument valid or stronger is to make one certain argument. That argument would be Sylvester is a cat. Since I added that to the argument, it makes the argument good. That argument is similar to the first example in chapter 4 of the Epstein text. There is nothing more that you can do to it to make it better. That is one of the many ways that you can use to repair an argument.