Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Interesting Concept - Chp. 12
A concept that I found interesting on chapter 12 is called "what is reasoning by analogy?" With this concept, we start our reasoning analogy with a comparison; but not all comparison is an argument. An example for this is: "Aaron is a christian. He shouldn't be committing sins because that is the same as disrespecting God." This is a valid analogy because there was an analogy that concludes this argument. Another example of an analogy: "Lori should drive this time because Anne always drive and it's not fair. Lori and Anne should take turns driving or they both should stay home." Theoretically speaking, this argument may seem good because yes, it is not fair that Anne is always driving. But what if Lori's car is back in the 80's and it can't make it to long distance while Anne's car can? This is an example of a bad reasoning argument by analogy.
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I like how the reasoning with analogy is described in this blog. I was having a difficult time finding how to describe reasoning with analogy and trying to find different ways to describe it with examples. I find the example used of how Aaron is a christian and should not commit sin is the most appealing to me. The reason that I find it appealing is because of how it is stated that all christians should not sin. This is an interesting factor because everyone is a sinner (christian or not) and hard to resist sin. I also like the example of how they use Lori to drive because of how Anne always drive. This does ot show any argument, but makes a stand of who should drive.
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