Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Conditionals and Contradictories
In the Epstien text, chapter 6, section B is about conditionals. This caught my eye because I have learned about these in previous classes, but never that much about it. These are usually "if" and "when" claims. An example of this would be "If you are a bald, white male, then you must be a racist." The claim may be true for some people but it is not always true. The conditional claims make statements the can't always be proven to be true. I thought this was an interesting section because I feel we often make these claims and don't even realize it.
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Dear Big Cat,
ReplyDeleteThis was an interesting one! You always keep me on my toes for what is next. I like the example that you chose for a conditional statement. The "if you are a bald, white male, you must be racist" is clearly conditional because I know many nice young white men that are bald and very respectable actually. I think that what you chose was also a good example because, even though it may sound ridiculous, people often make this assumption. A conditional statement would be, "if you are a bald, white male with a swastika tattoo, you must be racist". This is valid because the sign on his tattoo would prove that he is racist. Anyways, this is a terrible subject but it is true and very common so thank you for bringing it to attention.
everlasting love,
hb1
Congrats on having the ability to teach me something new. I had no idea what conditionals were. I liked that you were able to use all of your pervious knowledge that you learned in your previous class and then being able to connect to what you learn in this class comm. 41. I liked how you described what it meant you and how you can connect it to your everyday life. Since these are all things that we face today being able to relate to a sensitive topic like this was extremely cleaver. Good job on explaining and everything about conditionals and what they do and how to they correlate to everyday decision making.
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