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Creating good arguments

Creating good arguments

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Creating good arguments

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- In conversations with colleagues or scrolls through social media, you find no shortage of statements about what's true or what you should believe. We all make claims, maybe even with evidence to back them up, but are these claims built on a solid foundation with no cracks? And if there are cracks, can you find them? A good argument is deliberately constructed from a solid foundation. They aren't built with funny comebacks or louder voices. Solid foundations are built with claims that are supported by reasons that are glued together by evidence. Consider my coworker clients who took different positions on how to deal with their massive growth. Ranjeet argued for staying in their current space and instituting a distributed workforce, while Eric argued for moving into a larger space. Ranjeet's claim," It's best to provide a distributed work option." Eric's claim, "It's best to keep all the employees together." Since…

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