Don’t Jump to Conclusions
The Role of Inferences in Making and Analyzing Arguments
Consider the following argument:
Chocolate makes you smarter.
Therefore, I should eat lots of chocolate every day.
While many of us would like this argument to be true, it just doesn’t feel like it is. Even if we grant that the first statement (chocolate makes you smarter) is true, we find it hard to take the step fro…
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