" The five year old rural Tennessee native, who began competing in beauty pageants at just 6 months old, sat patiently while a makeup artist and hairstylist began the same intensive three-hour makeover that they typically give madisyn on the pageant circuit, " she has this inner confidence i can only attribute to competing in pageants says her mom, Lindsay, 29 (on pageant days she is raring to go)."
P1: She sits patiently through makeup and hair
P2: An intensive three-hour makeover
P3:On pageant days she is raring to go
C: Therefore she has an inner confidence that come from competing in pageants.
I'm not really sure that this is an argument. It seems to me like this is just statements. The premises would be true if this were an argument though, but the conclusion would have to be something different.
ReplyDeleteI think the argument is hidden, being that the mom "thinks" her kid is "raring to go", but in reality the kid is being forced into doing this. But you might be right Sbarbarotta, being that there is no argument in this blurb. Too bad because some really great arguments have come out of that show.
ReplyDeleteAt issue is whether the confidence the child displays is the result of her pageant experience. The mother thinks it is, and presents the other behaviors as reasons to think so. Since she's alleging a causal relationship, however, and we know the same confident behavior can have many other causes, we would need more support before we would think the inference strong (for example, that the child severely lacked confidence beforehand).
ReplyDeleteI see where this may not be an argument after reading your comments. Thanks for helping me clear this one up it does need to have more information for it to be an agrument
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