General Claims
General claims were the main topic of Chapter 8 of Critical Thinking by Richard Epistein. One of the main ideas supported in this section was defining claims using the key terms all, some, no, and only.
ALL: means every single one, with no expectations
Ex. All Asians are good at math.
· This claim is not a strong or valid. In this claim ALL applies that every Asian is good at math. I am asian…but I’m not very good at math.
SOME: implies to at least one, but not all
Ex. Some boys like the color pink.
· In this claim, the subject is implied that SOME boys like pink but only some. Some only has to include one person but not all.
NO: none, not even one.
Ex. No one likes vegetables.
· Nobody implies NOT ANY at all, not even one single person.
ONLY: means only this and that not anything else.
Ex. Only associates are allowed to be in the break room.
* The word only implies that nobody but the associates are allowed in the break room.
Hey K_tab good overview of this concept, I feel like I've read almost all of these posts detailing sections of general claims and I thought yours did the best job of reviewing the concept you chose, so great job! I think you did really well presenting the key terms pertaining to this subject before reviewing them. Finally the way you organized your concepts (definition, example, reviewing the example) was very helpful in the learning process. As I said before this was an excellent post and it helped me understand defining claims a little bit better so in my opinion you did a great job as both a student and a teacher.
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