Week 7: Question 3

An interesting section that I came across this week was when I read about Reasoning by Example. According to my past experiences, reasoning by example works the best for me. Reasoning by Example is when a person uses their past experiences to persuade a point in an argument. In the earlier chapters of Epstein, we learned that knowledge or past experience can be a good source in an argument. For myself, I could be a little obsessive with using examples sometimes because it'll always help me prove my point in any disclaimers. Especially when it comes to aruging with my boyfriend. I would use past experiences where he has done something wrong and I've asked him numerous time to change, he agree, and we'll be fine for the moment. But if ever it came up again, I would definitely use reasoning by examples and tell him we've distinguish this problem before and it's time for you to show some action rather than making the same mistakes over and over again. I find reasoning by example very helpful and to the point. After reasoning more of the different types of reasoning, it teaches me to be more articulate being making an argument.