One concept from this week's reading that I found incredible helpful was the part about how to diagram an argument in order to find out if it is valid or not. I am a very visual person and this was something that just really clicked in my mind. Diagramming arguments are just like word problems in math. You read the words, and then put the information from the problem into math equations that are understandable, and then you solve the problem. You use this same line of thinking when taking and argument, taking the information and putting it into an understandable picture, and then solving the problem of the argument being valid or not. This concept of diagramming has made analyzing arguments much easier for me because I am actually able to see the argument as a picture which is much clearer to me and I do not have to analyze the argument just from reading it.
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