SSH 105 Chapter 1: Critical thinking-chp 1 answers to textbook

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: Klaas Kraay

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: reconstruction and evaluation: we often say that people who yell at each other as part of a heated dispute are having, the text notes that example 1 does not contain a good argument. : as the text indicates, the us supreme court ruled in 1989 that burning the. American ag was a form of speech that was protected by the rst amendment to the constitution. The author of this letter appears to be defending the court"s decision, indirectly, by criticizing some of the critics of this decision. Upon careful reading, however, it is clear that the author of this letter offers no actual argument for the conclusion that the court"s decision was correct (or that the critics are mistaken). Instead, the author offers a series of questions that seem to suggest that critics of the court are somehow inconsistent in their actions. But rst, the author doesn"t actually offer any reasons for thinking that these people are behaving inconsistently.