Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Don't Generalize!
One lesson that I thought useful was the section about general claims and their contradictories. This section talks about how a claim can easily be overreached if people make general claims. General claims are basically when people reason with "All" like " All people think Errol is awesome." To fix this claim and make it better sometimes, one simple needs to put "some" instead in the place of "all". Tis helps the argument because it avoids generalizing a whole group and/or message. In a contradictory sense, one could say the same thing in a negative light. For example, "No people think Errol is awesome", but that greatens the chance of creating a fallacy, especially since that's obviously not true. In real life situations, I always catch people on making general statements. I severely dislike general claims because they generalize a whole group's different ideas and characteristics and streamline them to this one persepctive.
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Hey illestv, I reviewed this same concept in my final post this week and I thought it was interesting how we took different routes to explain the same concept. In your post it seemed as though you defined the concept almost through your example, which is a helpful learning tool that I didn't think of. I also thought you did a great job tying this subject into real world issues which as a student makes me think this is something I can apply to my everyday life. Through these examples I thought you did an excellent job providing a real-world version of the book's definition, great job.
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