Thursday, November 18, 2010

Cause and Effect

The Cause and Effect website has very good points on introducing us to Causal Arguments. Causation is connecting the relationship between conducting it and having a result. It’s usually dealt with injury cases. The example of the bicyclist moving into the traffic lane in order to pass a truck illegally parked in the bike lane has a good claim if he were to be in court. The bicyclist will probably say the truck shouldn’t have parked. That is why I swerved into the lane of traffic. One good point from the website is that none of the claims that he made fit the pattern of inductive argument because they aren’t observed or experienced. The last part of the website is the most important, which deals with three factors that give strength in a causal argument. They are to accept or demonstrable the implied comparison, the case for causation, and how credible it really is.

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