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Essay

            In this essay, the center will be on some three concepts that are significantly important to all studies of critical reasoning. The three concepts are:

        i.            Arguments

      ii.            Premises

    iii.            Conclusions

Most of the primary topics in this course are heavily forms of arguments and much of what has been learned concerns ways of recognizing various kinds of arguments in real life. Additionally, it concerns ways in which one can easily determine whether an argument is good or whether it is not-so-good and finally ways strengthening weak arguments.

In the article “Meet Chewie, the biggest Australopithecus on record”, Fidelis Masao and her colleagues have been reported to claim that from the relative size of a set of 4 million-year-old footprints, they can easily determine some facts about the social structure of the individuals who made the footprints.

Argument

From the relative size of a set of 4 million-year-old footprints, they can easily determine some facts about the social structure of the individuals who made the footprints.

If the footprints are 4 million-year-old, then we can determine facts about the social structure of the individuals who made the footprints. Therefore we will determine facts about the social structure of the individuals who made the footprints because they are 4 million-year-old.

Conclusion

We can determine the facts about the social structure of the individuals who made the footprints

“We can determine the facts about the social structure of the individuals who made the footprints” follows the word “therefore” and it can be said to the conclusion. Therefore, the conclusion is “We can determine the facts about the social structure of the individuals who made the footprints.”

We are remaining with discovering the premises. However, the word “because” helps to make things clearer from the above argument.

The conclusion has shown well in the above argument which in this case is at the beginning. In this argument, something known as the standard form will be used whereby all the premises will be listed, draw a line and write down the conclusion below the line. The two arguments above have the similar standard form:

1.      If the footprints are 4 million-year-old, we can determine facts about the social structure of the individuals who made the footprints (Premise 1)

2.      The footprints are 4 million-year-old (Premise 2)

 

3.      We can determine facts about the social structure of the individuals who made the footprints (Conclusion)

    Fidelis Masao and her colleagues might have made a mistake in this conclusion. This is because there are many Australopithecus which were there during that time. The premise which seems mistaken is “If the footprints are 4 million-year-old we can determine facts about the social structure of the individuals who made the footprints” where it might be difficult determining the social structure of the Australopithecus. The researchers need to have done more research before they come up with their conclusion. More research would have probably changed ways in which they concluded.

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