Beware the Big Five
Here’s this week’s IT read, Beware the Big Five
Keep our basic methods for evaluating arguments in mind in your comments. If you think an author is arriving at the wrong conclusion, you want to explain why by explaining how their their premises are false or fail to support the conclusion they a drawing. To do this effectively requires first getting clear on just what the argument is. So some useful discussion might focus just on this. Attacking a misinterpretation of an argument amounts to a straw man fallacy. Merely declaring and argument weak is uninformative and ad hominem attacks are mere distractions.
