COMM 335 Practice Exercises 10 McGaan
The following arguments contain claims and grounds. You must infer and write out the warrant and
label it by type (i.e. analogy, cause, definition, etc.). Then create/ indicate an appropriate
qualifier, reservation, and backing for this argument.
1.
Al Gore received more votes
than George Bush
in the presidential election of 2000; therefore, he
probably should
have won.
2.
Given the shuttle disaster, NASA should abandon the manned space
program.
3.
We should have never been involved in Vietnam because it was a civil war which
had no direct bearing on our national interests.
4.
Unless the car is out of gas, the reason it won't start must be a dead battery.
5.
DNA testing evidence should not be allowed in court because no technology is
ever completely reliable.
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