Evaluating Truth and Validity Exercise

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Evaluating Truth and Validity Exercise While conducting research on what scenario to evaluate in regards to truth and validity, I have decided to write about Chapter 12.2, exercise (J) and the premise that “power must be evil because it can corrupt people”. I would like to start with this because although the argument seems simple and innocent, there possibly can be a different message that one might over look at first glance. We will use the first step in the four step process, the first step is “State your argument fully,”, and this argument was easy to set aside preconceptions because there are none. The second step “errors affecting truth “when checking for errors in the message, the argument seems to be somewhat true. First off, the argument states that power corrupts all people, is a blanket statement, what it really is ones interpretation of an opinion. A speaker can influence a crown and in the right setting these words and be very powerful. This statement is not true for the fact that there have been people who have had power and have not been corrupt. There are good and bad people history just tends to remember the ones who were using power in a corrupt way. Wording is very important and if someone were to want to word this in a way to make it accurate he or she would say, “Power may be evil because it can corrupt some people”. Step three in the process is “Examine your argument for validity errors”, this step would be to check the argument for validity errors and considering the reasoning that links conclusions to premises to determine whether your conclusion is legitimate or illegitimate, and if the argument fails on more than one point. Even after revising the statement, there still may be some questions in regards to the message before the message can be validated. Since there is no gage that determines what point, or how much power one must have in

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