106. The Toulmin Method of Argumentation | THUNK 

My teacher told us to watch this You will get a lot more views if people decide to do this homework lol

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"Dude, Cocoa!" is my go-to argument. It leaves many people confused. There's an interesting notion in there in the way we may shorthand arguments. "Dude, Cocoa" might be a persuasive argument in and of itself to someone who lives in the house or is a frequent visitor, but to another person, it's one step away from gibberish.

Thank you for bringing Toulmin's Method to the classroom. This will be helpful as I teach juniors in argument writing.

Great video, thank you for taking the time to produce this and all the others.

Very helpful. It helps me become more aware of my general thinking, where I have to consider possible come backs.

Great stuff! Thank you for introducing me to this, I'll be sure to use it!

I really really like this video series, precise, balanced and delivered with a nice sense of understated humor

Excellent video. Good basic description of Toulmin, and a reliable summary for students trying to understand the model.

Thank you Mr. Walters.

Absolutely underwatched. I'm happy I found you, but sad cause I haven't earlier. Terrific job, soldier o7

This helped so much in my understanding! Thank you!

These videos are awesome!

Great explanation of Toulmin with examples that make sense. Just in time for the holidays. lol

Lucid explanation! And thank you for the links in the description.

I've always felt a little that the syllogistic style of argumentation is so abstract sometimes that people have a hard time using them. "grounding" your arguments in real life, with a focus on when your arguments work and don't work, seem more realisitc and valid to me. Also, the connection to r/CMV is great, I love that subreddit. PS: PLEASE BRING BACK THE HATS

It certainly sounds like an interesting method. Thank you for sharing it! :)

I'm using this in my Global Perspectives and research class and I'm loving it. Could you do something about argumentation by Chaïm Perelman?

I learned so much on this topic. I want to be able to speak about Toulmin argument to a group of 11th graders very soon.

When I was in high school, the toulmin method was considered the the basis of explaining all argumentation. We used kind of a modified version of it however, for us it was just Claim Warrant and Data, then we would add an Impact, or why the argument mattered. I really don't know why that model stood as the standard for a community dedicated to the art of argumentation over any other method, but it did. Anyway, I enjoyed this video for reminding me of that.

its a good basis for any situation you find you self in an argument with a stubborn attitude

This is great! I used it in my classroom today. Would you please make one on Rogerian argument, too? Thunk rocks!

The points of interest found by the researchers on the sub-reddit are interesting and yet unsurprising, as they are all things that I actively put to use when I worked in retail and customer service (minus the usage of "you" as it sometimes ends up coming of as accusatory, even when not meant to-often putting people on the defense). It's nice to know that people generally respond well to well thought out, less aggressively presented points of interest. It is unfortunate that less people feel the need to take the time to do so. =( Great THUNK; keep it up!

It makes sense that qualified claims like 'sometimes' are effects if the one whose views being changed is moving away from universal claims.

Good work.

I am glad you went into detail about warrant. Without warrant, deductive reasoning can lead to "I am a mammal, cats are mammals, therefore, I am a cat"

I need to write a short 3 paragraph Toulmin argument essay. It has to be about something that has happened in my life and I'm drawing a blank. I've never had to use this method argument until know... And I'm drawing a blank.

Thank you

Just wanted to let you know that I have had 2 different professors try and fail to explain this in a way that made sense to me. I have a final tomorrow and thanks to your video I finally understand toulmin. It’s waaay simpler than I thought lol

Well explained! Thank you. Never would have learned of the Change My Mind subreddit otherwise.

I have to make a presentation of this and I don't have an idea that what is it. Need some help please,

Take a look at the pragma-dialectic model. Also the argument schemes from Walton. Pretty interesting stuff.

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Quoting what someone said is a good way of exploring what they meant though.

EXCELLENT.

I'm getting flashbacks to inductive proofs now. I hope you're happy.

needed this for ap language class thanks

Thought I'd mention it, the Socrates is a man argument is the example my logic prof used to show the limits of propositional logic and why we need predicate logic (because we have to say For All x where x is a man etc which you can't really do in propositional logic)

ChangeMyView changed a significant portion of my everyday live by... well, changing my view on a topic. It's a great sub if you want to give yourself a re-moralization or want to question your position on something. (I can't believe it's been three years since then.)

I am now thoroughly convinced Coco will eat the leftovers

'Dude Cocoa, made me laugh! Awesome !

This might be useful for Conflux.

Dude ... my feelings

Did they say how effective paraphrasing somebody's view back to them is? "If I understand what you correctly you are saying X, Y, Z..." Then "Given that here is where I think something is amiss..."

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Everything discussed here is still a deductive argument. Induction informs the truth assignment of the premises of an argument, but the argument’s structure is invariant under the truth of its premises and conclusions. Supplying “warrants” is just the process of breaking your premises up into their own *sound* sub arguments. The whole point of argumentation on an interpersonal level is to present a conclusion and then offer a *sound* argument for the conclusion’s truth (an argument where all its premises are true and the conclusion is true). Perhaps the Toulmin method is a useful mental model to think about argumentation, but it is not itself a novel approach to argumentation.

Hm. That's how I generally structure my arguments. Didn't realize it had a name. It just seemed logical to me. :-P

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Thanks for this! You broke down an incredibly boring, 10-page article that I had to read for class in minutes!

“People don’t usually disagree with us because they believe something is logically impossible” ever talked to a liberal?

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should've posted this on the 23rd of november, not the 29th ;)

He’s like a perfect combination of Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans...

Can it be true that we're living in a post-truth world if we're living in a post-truth world? - u/RockyFlintstone

I all men have to be mortal, how do we know that socrates is a man before we have observed him die? :p

Would you consider a Google hangout?

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After watching twice I still don't get it... maybe it's better to use a more relevant example instead of a dog being hungry..

Can I pet cocoa please? 😀

I would have loved to use this for my high school class, but the speaker is just speaking TOO FAST. :( Awwww.

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I have to make a presentation of this and I don't have an idea that what is it. Need some help please,