Congress is arguing the need for spending cuts, but a significant number of senators and representatives have declared that defense spending, Medicare, and Social Security are “off the table” (i.e., will not be cut). How are these declarations likely to influence the quality of argument in the upcoming budget negotiations?
What will be an ideal response?
Putting arbitrary limits on what is arguable hinders our ability to use argument to explore
various alternatives (in fact, such actions seem to suggest that certain positions are beyond
critical scrutiny). Students may refer to the example of the budget cut debate contained in the
chapter.
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The two different translations possible for such expressions as “read between the lines” or “my leg went to sleep” would be examples of what translation problem?
A. conceptual equivalence B. experiential equivalence C. idiomatic equivalence D. vocabulary equivalence