I don’t believe that everything is an argument. “Hi how’s it going?” is not an argument to me. I’m not arguing that my question is worth a response, I’m simply asking someone how things are going. Saying Batman comes out June 23rd isn’t an argument to me either, just a fact. There is no competing side there, its factual more so than argumentative. The same goes for newspaper articles. Some articles are purely informative, not inspiring a call to action. What I chose to eat for lunch doesn’t seem like an argument either. I would generally define an argument as two or more disagreeing sides.
I thought the example of using arguments to make decisions was accurate, and i particularly liked the example of selecting a major in college. The pro-con lists are something people make on a regular basis to make decisions. I thought that was interesting to think of that situation as an argument. The reading also touched on arguments in a court room, which I thought was interesting. I never thought of it in that way.
I wasn’t surprised about the section on ethos, logos and pathos. I remembered from earlier English classes the purpose and concepts of those words in rhetoric.
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