Dior Ayala -- Argument Thesis Blog Post

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INTRO

    attention getter : Is your type tall, dark, and hairy? a bunch of people appear to think so. It goes by many names. Sasquatch! Yeti! Bigfoot! it's the wild man.

    preview : I will be speaking about the arguments and fallacies seen in the "case report" on a bigfoot sighting. Exciting I'm sure. 

    credibility : having taken Dr. Vrooman's class for over 2 months so far, as well as having on hand the fallacies and P-OT charts, I am quite obviously almost an expert on this subject.

BODY

*use visulas* connect each to transition well

    -  part one :  P-OT analysis

•  bandwagon : a popular idea is correct
• "she didn't believe in... bigfoot but I told her... 'it was standing right infront of us'

• wishful thinking : something is true because i want it to be
• hasty generalization : a conclusion drawn from too small a sample of evidence
• "It was grayish-black in color and stood about 7 feet tall. I couldn't see the face very well because it was covered with hair"

    -  part two :  Perelman's rhetoric argument

• Premises
• Presumptions : admitted as assumptions
• Abstract : not concrete
• “it was greyish-black in colour… I couldn’t see the face very well because it was covered with hair… bigfoot… it was standing right infront of us”
• Argument Types
• based on the structure of reality
• Bias
• “My friend didn’t believe… but i told her ‘it was standing right infront of us'’”
• Establishing the structure of reality 
• Import : event calls attention to rule’s possible application
• “We observed a large upright animal standing in the middle of the road… bigfoot”
• Dissociation
• Justification : expressions which invite dissociation
• “Stood about 7 feet tall” 

*credit before reaching here*

CONCLUSION

thesis : the witness doesn't have a clear "image" of what was it that they had sighted, only having identified something "tall"... rendering the tale quite ineffective with its legitimacy

... apparently, being hairy means your bigfoot.