Vague.. The Return of..

So there was one thing I remember talking about in my blogs that I remember i discussed that became a pet peeve of mine. Part C. Section 2 of Chapter 8 talking about Vague generalities. Nothing more irritates me the most but being vague.

The book "Critical Thinking discusses" Vague generalities, like using word combinations such as "very few" or "almost all". More or less an analogy of a oxymoron.

An example would be:

Almost all Honda's have VTEC (Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control).

This is vague considering using the words almost all. Almost could be replaced by the word some. It's either all or some. Saying almost all just confuses the listener or reader who is trying to figure out the amount of Honda's that have VTEC.

Here's a great picture after a party this morning. I guess it's my DJ setup after the party and it's my in that picture when i was in 8th Grade.

OP-ED CRED lol

The first Major assignment was to be, a consideration of important skills to learn how to analyze. The reason for this is how almost everything is done by analyzing. When is comes to going through an essay or reading book, everything is analyzed. But I found the first assignment really helpful.

When started by trying to understand the major claim. Then we went about going through the premises and claims that help support the main claim. The reason for this is to check if the the whole argument discussed in the editorial is a valid and good argument. We then try to find what type of evidence is included, find a description in the editorial, and discuses to prove if the editorial is strong/valid.

With these type of techniques to analyze anything, you will be golden. These techniques are I would believe are essential in order to have a good analyze of an argument.

Talk about a party, I don't know why but I took a picture of this. Reminds me of crepes.

Validation to the Club Please?

So I remember I talked about before how in a week of discussion, I was comparing something with discrete math. Well in Chapter 8, there is an explanation in party B. "Some Valid and Invalid Forms" that has a diagram EXACTLY like discrete math, so here it is.



This diagram pretty much sums up the whole beginning of discrete math.

Well on to describe this graph, it describes the different with talking in a direct way of reasoning and arguing backwards with all. A direct way is considered valid. The example explained is about how you start with For All S are P, a is S, So a is P. You start from S then you end with P.

An example is All Yellow Cars are Bright. Wally has a Yellow Volkswagen. Thus Wally has a Bright car.

Arguing backwards makes a statement weak: All Yellow Cars are Bright. Wally has a Bright Car. Wally has a Yellow Volkswagen. With that said there are other bright cars that are not yellow, like red and laguna blue. With that statement arguing backwards thus makes an argument weak.

This picture is gonna be a good memory in my life, well not really but a good one. My friend I met a day ago at a party that I realize kicked it with hella of my friends back in high school. WHAT A TRIP!

me and Crackin Candace

It's Best to Ignore Most of the Internet Sometimes..

Chapter 5 had something about advertising withing an online site. The whole point of advertising is to persuade someone in buying their product.

This is going to be my opinion on this so don't take this serious. I honestly believe that you SHOULD NOT believe ANYTHING on the internet unless proven. Regardless if it's Wikipedia, comments or status updates on Facebook, and even pop up or regular online advertising. Just going on Facebook have a lot of advertising that can be questionable. Just today, I saw an ad on Facebook talking about increasing size for a male. To prove the true conclusion for this product for this question, I did a little bit of research. I went on Google to searched up the product and I found many sources, such as forums, Yahoo answers, etc.. Majority of them has claimed that it doesn't work. But then again, I would be contradicting myself if I were to believe the online sources I found. The only best source I would believe would be if I actually try it my self. I obviously didn't buy the product but if to know if the product works, I would have to try it.

This was my awesome dinner today. Happy Birthday Dad!!

False Advertising.

Here's a good example of repairing a statement through advertising. Everyone who uses the internet has seen advertising all over the place; especially pop up ones that irritate EVERYPONE. This picture can conclude what I am talking about.



The message claims I won a prize. I have a new message from "God knows what?" that congratulates me that I won a prize of my choice. First of all, if you click the advertisement, it leads to another website of things to do before you claim the prize. You have to join or do a subscription such as magazines or a blockbuster membership, and then pay for those expenses. Then you also need to have 10 other people do the same. Overall it's a scam and a lie.

In order to fix this, they should have it instead of LIEING, they can say you have to do these things in order to claim something instead of saying you won, even though we all know you didn't win.

WTF?? the maintence light is on...

Repairing argument's can help ones self if someone is contradicting themselves or even being bias. There are also more reasons why it can help. Here are several examples I came up with.

"Emil drives slow. So Emil is a safe driver."

Analysis: So the claim here is that Emil drives slow, this making him safe. The thing is, just because Emil drives slow, doesn't mean he is a safe driver. There can be times he can be reckless like driving in the wrong lane or even swerving like crazy. In order to repair this statement, there needs to be something added DETAILS on how he drives, like habits or stories of how he drives.

"Google isn't working. So the internet is down."

Analysis: The claim here is that the website Google isn't connecting, this the whole internet is down. Doesn't mean because Google is down, means the whole internet is down. What if other sites work? The person would have to check other sites also or even call their ISP to check if its actually down.

Here's me at work, the one in purple with support with Roxxy.