There are two stock issues for arguing factual propositions. The first stock issue asks: "What information confirms or denies the alleged relationship between the subject and the predicate of the primary inference?" What is the second stock issue?
(a) By what criteria is the alleged factual relationship located in a hierarchy of acceptable fact?
(b) What techniques of reasoning should be used to demonstrate this relationship?
(c) What are the consequences of accepting this relationship as probably true?
(d) What hierarchy of acceptable fact does the relationship exist in?
B
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