Week 4 Question 1

Concerning 221 - 225 Complex Arguments for Analysis: Page 225 contains Exercises on the Structure of Arguments. Please choose one of the 5 exercises and complete the exercise in one post to your blog. After you have completed the exercise, discuss whether or not this exercise was useful.

I chose Exercise 3: Las Vegas  has too many people. There's not enough water in the desert to support more than a million people. And the infrastructure of the city can't handle more than a million: The streets are overcrowded, and traffic is always congested; the schools are overcrowded, and new ones can't be built fast enough. We should stop migration to the city by tough zoning laws in the city and county.

This argument is definitely a claim because anyone could see this statement as true or false.
(1) Las Vegas has too many people
(2) There's not enough water in the desert to support more than a million people
(3) The infrastructure of the city can't handle more than a million
(4) The streets are overcrowded and traffic is always congested
(5) The schools are overcrowded and new ones can't be built fast enough

Conclusion: We should stop migration to the city by tough zoning laws in the city and county.

Addition Premises?: I do not really think this argument needs any more premises because there is enough evidence and support with all of these premises to make the conclusion true and make the claim strong.

Subargument?: There's not enough water in the desert to support more than a million people, therefore the infrastructure of the city can't handle more than a million.

Good Argument?: This argument, I believe is a good argument, it has all parts of a good argument, and I think that this argument is even a strong one, because there is possibility that the premises could be true and conclusion false.

I do not know if this exercise was helpful because I do not know if I did it right. If I did do it right then it was a little helpful, but more so confusing as to what to do exactly. If I did it wrong then this exercise was just plain confusing.