A concept that I found interesting is in chapter 5 “Is that true?” Section A: Evaluating Premises:
In this section, it talks about what kind of choices are needed in order for the claim to be believable -
1) accept the claim as true
2) reject the claim as false
3) suspend judgment
I found these three choices to be useful because usually when people want to make their claim believable, they lack one of the three or everything in general. In my advertisement post, I chose covergirl waterproof mascara as my example. It’s true that according to the label, it’s waterproof. However, after I tested it out, it was false so therefore, the claim that was supposedly true is not true. I found that evaluating premises is interesting because many people believe that every claim should be backed up with an argument. But in truth, we can’t do that. We need justification for every claim or else the claim can go on forever and ever. It is entirely up to us if we want to believe the claim or not.
This is a very interesting topic that as a student we should all considering knowing. I think a lot people live in a fast pace world where they only look at the topics that presented to them. We do not research or find the back story of questions or problems. If a majority of the people think it's wrong then most of the time people will go with the band wagon and go with it. This might be a little different, but we need to utilize those three steps to be more knowledgeable that there different choices available to us and just not one.
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