What I learned

I have learned many concepts over the course of this semester. One concept I have learned about is vague sentences. “A sentence is vague if there are so many ways to understand it that we can’t settle on one of those without the speaker making it clearer.” An example of a vague sentence is, “Where are they going?” A lot of things aren’t clarified with this question. Some questions raised are; “Who is they?” “Are ‘they’ people?” Animals? This question needs to be made clearer in order for it to be understood. Another thing I learned in this class was the tests for an argument to be considered good. The first test is, “the premises are plausible.” This means that we have good reason to believe that the premise is true. The second test is, “the premises are more plausible than the conclusion.” The third test is, “the argument is valid or strong.”