Repairing Arguments

1). In our last discussion week we talked about Violating the Principle of Rational Discussion (page 202) and Content Fallacies (page 201). This week I would like you to discuss the idea of repairing arguments. For this question, please come up with an argument that needs to be repaired. Look over the examples on pages 63-67. Come up with your own example and 'discuss' it as they do in the text. To accomplish this, you should understand the Principle of Rational Discussion and the concept of Repairing Arguments.


Blake is a tattoo artist.  He has 7 years of experience.  Therefore, he is a well-experienced tattoo artist.
Assuming the claim of "He has 7 years of experience" is true, the person arguing knows about the subject under discussion, and is able and willing to reason well, we can add to this argument to make it a stronger argument.  This argument is missing (a) premise(s) to help glue everything together.  In this argument, we could add "Any tattoo artist with experience at least over 3-5 years is well-experienced".  Then this would make the argument stronger and remains valid to show that Blake is well over 3-5 years and has much experience in the tattooing field.  Adding this claim would help this argument because its still plausible and plausible to the person arguing and is more plausible than the conclusion.  Thus, repairing this argument to become stronger and remain valid.