Discuss four questions a speaker should ask when using inference from example to support a claim.
What will be an ideal response?
- Are there enough examples? If the number of examples is too small it may not be sufficient to reflect the features of the significant population.
- Do the examples represent the whole category? If all cited cases are similar in most ways, it will weaken the speaker's overall argument.
- Are the examples ambiguous? At times a single example might support different inferences that weaken the example. The audience wonders which claim to believe.
- Are the examples fallacious? Fallacies occur when an inference appears sound but upon inspection it contains a significant flaw. This is an obvious weakening of the example.
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