Emotion Motion

An "appeal to emotion" is what caught my eye . It is what emotion is brought up to any premise. It can deal with a statement a person said, or even an advertisement seen on TV or heard on the radio. They can sometimes be irrelevant to the statement in certain ways but there is always an explanation why the emotion is caused from a statement.
A good example can be sadness. "I was eating a home style breakfast at a dinner and it reminded me of my Grandmother. Just reminded me of my Grandmother had cause me to become sad because she passed away a year ago." The emotion is caused by remembrance which brings emotion to the statement.
I found this interesting in how any emotion can be caused through words. It can be hateful to even something beautiful. Every statement can be surrounded by an emotion.

This is me with a really big pig. I'm the one with the hat.

91 Gas FTW

Relevance. I believe one of the most important principles in any argument having any relevance to the discussion. The book "Critical Thinking" by Richard L. Epstein describes "irrelevance" as a premise or premises not related at all to the conclusion.

I think irrelevance is not making any of your points come together within the conclusion. That makes the definition of relevance in upon "having connection at the matter at hand".

Relevance can be a connection to any argument in life. Just recently, I had an argument about different types of gas. So there's 87, 89, 91, and in some places, 93 in America. I was talking about how turbo cars require 91. Then concluded in how they require 91 gas because the turbo boost pressure makes the cylinders go faster, thus requiring 91 gas because of the boost pressure. Talking about turbo boost pressure makes the premise relevant because it backs up the argument.

Here is valentines day, my car found a really hot date.

Don't get rid of the cars!!!!

For the exercises given, I chose the first statement.

The statement is about a person complaining about his neighbor. The complaint explains how the neighbor has too many "beat up" cars in front of his lawn and the person want the neighbor to get rid of them for property value reasons.

It is argument of a complaint about the disheveled way the neighbor has his lawn. It is filled with rusty cars that makes the neighborhood look bad.

The conclusion to solve this "it depends". Yes it decreases the value of the neighbor but it doesn't seem as if they want to have a nice good neighborhood, they don't want to move out of there. So there isn't a point for having the neighbor clean up his/her place. Also, it's his property, he can do what he wants to it, no one can stop him/her from what I believe.

The premises needed is a reason why the complainer wants the value to go up for his neighborhood. If the complainer isn't trying to sell it, whats the point??

It's not really a good argument because of the premises needed but if the complainer is complaining in the first place, then he might need the value of his/her house to go up anyway.

Here's a random one I picked. DJ IY, THE FPS.

Who's the leader now???

I know a lot of people did this topic but I believe in my opinion is one of the most important ones. AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS!! Leadership!!!

My definition of leadership is described as a person that physically and emotionally inspires another person or a group. It helps get work going instead of not having a lead of the work you have to do. Without leadership, I believe people would be confused in what they are doing and not accomplish anything.

A good example of leadership is our group project for this class. We all meet together and talked about the project. One person was being a leader in a way she was assigning people what to do. She had the concept down of being a leader and designated others of different work.

In my opinion, leadership is very important. It helps get work done. If it wasn't for leadership, I don't think work would ever be done.

This picture is hella dope. I think the best crepe I ever had. Genki's in San Francisco. (Chocolate ice cream crepe with cheesecake. MMMM CARPET.

Versus Mode

A strong argument and a valid argument are someone connected but they both relate to different things. Like I said in the previous post, the book Critical Thinking gives a description of both arguments.

A valid argument meaning " a statements that the premises isn't true and the conclusion is false at the same time." A strong argument is knowing whether the statements are actually true or false instead of unknowing the actual fact of the statements.

With a valid argument, you understand what the person is arguing about but don't really know if the person's statements are true or false facts. Such as maybe just opinions or even bias remarks.

But on the other hand, a strong argument is a statement that is be proven by facts, evens, and even common knowledge we know as today. More or less, a strong argument can be considered straightforward.

Here's a few of my "little" buddies that I kick it with on a daily basis.

This is almost like Discrete Math.

This section of the book in describing "The Test for an Argument to Be Good" reminds me a lot of Discrete Math (Math 42). This describes truth tables such as (P->Q, P is true).

These are some examples that I came up with:

1. A GTi is a VolksWagen car with a turbo. A turbo increases the boost in a car which then makes the car fast. Therefore, a GTi is a fast car.

2. Limp Bizkit is a music artist that sings with explicit lyrics. Explicit lyrics are more or less inappropriate and vulgar statements. Therefore, Limp Bizkit is a music artist that sings inappropriate and vulgar statements.

3. Dr. Pepper is a good beverage. Good beverages are usually considered tasty. Therefore, Dr. Pepper is tasty.

In the book, Critical Thinking, the description of a Valid Argument is a "statement that the premises isn't true and the conclusion is false in unison." In other words, some statements can be valid but not strong enough to know if the statments are true or false.

Strong arguements are knowing a statement is true and/or false. The GTi exmaple is a good exmaple. We know that a GTi is a car, we know that a turbo increases boost making a car fast, therefore, we know the GTi is a fast car. All of those statements are true.

As again, I like to put random pictures up in all my blogs. Here's a really good one (in my opinion) i took today in my iPhone at Valley Fair with my friend known as "01101001".

DJ Epstein's Discussion

I read Richard Epstein's discussion on prescriptive claims and value judgement. His discussion explains how prescriptive claims is on the same base as objective claims, but explaining more reasoning to it. An example can be someone is driving on the road, then they hit a piece of wood and it pops the tire. With a flat tire, they should replace the flat tire with a spare tire temporally.

A prescriptive claim can lead help to a value judgment. This can help a situation in order to better claim the statement. Value judgment meaning comparing the good and the bad of the situation. This helps in everyday lives in order to proceed with good preparation.

Here's a picture of me working on my car. Can you believe we gotta do all this just to perfectly mount the high beam?!?!?

OMG Being Vague

I usually get irritated by people being vague while discussing almost anything. I deal with people being vague almost everyday. Really Irritating. Whats worse is when its something important, and it is hard to picture what the person is really talking about.

An example can be explaining directions. Last night, I was on a way to a dinner to a place that I have never went to before. The area is around Milpitas and I never really go around there. The directions was explained to "go on this street and look for a plaza." That was the only direction I got from my friend. What made it difficult the street that I had to be on had about almost 10 plaza's. Things that are vague as that response "Go on Jackson and look for a plaza" really irritate me.

This doesn't always happen when dealing with directions. Other good examples that I seen directions that were vague were how to do a homework assignment, how to take off a bulb from a GTi, and even trying to figure out how a person broke the computer.

More or less people being vague happens all the time.

This is my reaction when you explain vague statements to me.

DJ's Claims

The way I think of it, an objective claim is a statement that consist of facts. More or less a statement that can be proven true or false. But on the other hand, subjective claim is the opposite of objective claim. Subjective claims consist of beliefs, opinions, and sometimes bias statements.

Subjective claims can appear anywhere in your everyday life. Couple days ago, a friend of mine was was talking about the Final Season of "Lost" broadcasting that night. He then goes and talks about how this episode is going to be the best episode of any show he seen in awhile. Again without even broadcasting yet, this shows how this is a subjective statement. Him stating that it is going to be the best episode is an opinion statement.

Objective claims can be from anything such as current events. An example could be Obama State of the Union Address 2010. An objective claim from this is that "President Obama gave his State of the Union Address speech in January 27th, 2010."

Like I said I like to put random pictures of the day in my blogs. So here's one from a Costco run for the CS Club at SJSU.