Thread: Logic argue please help!!!!!!!

Hi everyone today is my very last day in my Logic class and I have an assignment due and I am just stuck on it because I have no idea what it is asking me to do. See no one in the class does because the whole time when we have argued it has been in the 3 sentences you know and now all of a sudden our assignment is:

argue for one of the following in about 750 words

options are:

1.Course instructor is a computer program, not a living human being.
2.Earth is flat.
3.There have been proven cases of abduction by aliens.
4.Jean-Antoine Watteau was the greatest painter in history.

I just need help because I dont understand how to argue in 750 words =*0(
Is there a formula or something I am supposed to know how to do?! I don't want to ask the teacher because 1 its late already to be asking and 2 if I am supposed to know and dont I dont want everyone in the class be waiting for that 1 person to ask and me be the one to do it so yeah thats the situation im in. I really hope someone can just explain to me how I am supposed to argue for a statement in 750 words that’s all i need to know I dont want anyone to do it for me I just need help on how to set it up like in English how when you write an essay and you use the MLA format is there something like that for this??? Help anyone please!!! Thanks

i don't see any connection between the assignment and logic in general and specific in symbolic logic, which i assume the assignment is from a symbolic logic class, is it not?

Originally Posted by DangerMan

i don't see any connection between the assignment and logic in general and specific in symbolic logic, which i assume the assignment is from a symbolic logic class, is it not?

Its an exercise in construction an argument to defend a thesis - preferably
one that at first sight is indefensible. I'm sure a lawyer would see the
connection

RonL