Week 6: Post #3

During my reading, I found "Between One and All with Precise generalities" very useful and informative.  I've learned to use accurate facts when making claims especially through using resourceful statistics instead of being ambiguous.  We should always be careful when using, "one and all" to conclude a claim.  An example that the book used to show an invalid argument was, "72% of ALL students who take critical thinking from Dr.E think he's the best teacher they've ever had.  Harry took Dr. E's critical thinking course last year.  So Harry thinks Dr. E is the best teacher he's ever had."  We can analyze this claim and agree that the premise "could" but the conclusion could also be false.  And of course this assumption ties to not knowing the people involve.  Hence, we should not jump to conclusions and always think about the claims we're making.  To avoid this problem, we should think twice before using the conjunction, "all or one" and only make these claims if we have research or facts to buttress our claim.  After understanding this subject matter more, I've learned not to listen to people's sterotyping because premises could prove a point but the conclusion isn't always necessarily true.