WRT 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Needle Exchange Programme, The New York Times, Ray Rice
10 Nov 2014
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Let"s look at warrants as explained by this academic source: Warrants are chains of reasoning that connect the claim and evidence/reason. A warrant is the principle, provision or chain of reasoning that connects the grounds/reason to the claim. Warrants operate at a higher level of generality than a claim or reason, and they are not normally explicit. Example: needle exchange programs should be abolished [claim] because they only cause more people to use drugs. [reason] The unstated warrant is: when you make risky behavior safer you encourage more people to engage in it. There are 6 main argumentative strategies via which the relationship between evidence and claim are often established. These strategies are used at various different levels of generality within an argument, and rarely come in neat packages - typically they are interconnected and work in combination. Extrapolating from one situation or event based on the nature and outcome of a similar situation or event.
