- Communicative Objective: Learn to develop logically layered arguments about abstract issues, establish premises, anticipate objections, and defend conclusions through sophisticated reasoning.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- The central argument rests on the proposition that individual choices cannot be evaluated independently of the structures that shape them.
- Even if we concede that the principle is theoretically sound, its practical application remains open to serious challenge.
- One might object that this reasoning places excessive emphasis on context, but that objection overlooks the extent to which context determines available choices.
- The conclusion follows only if we accept the preceding assumption that all relevant alternatives have been considered.
- Far from undermining the argument, this limitation clarifies the conditions under which the argument can legitimately be sustained.
- Grammar Focus: Concessive conditionals, inversion and fronting for emphasis, complex relative clauses, extraposition, abstract nominalization, and conditional logical structures.
- Vocabulary Focus: proposition, concede, premise, legitimacy, undermine
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Constructing and Defending Abstract Arguments
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