Oct 17th-22nd Question 2

One Aspect of chapter 8 that I found interesting was valid and invalid forms. I really liked the way the book showed it in the validity diagram because it made it easy to see why the arguments are strong or weak. The direct way of reasoning with all is a strong argument because If all squirrels eat nuts, Joey is a squirrel, so Joey eats nuts. If you do this backwards All squirrels eat nuts, Joey eats nuts, so Joey is a squirrel. This is arguing backwards with all. A personal example I have with this is at San Jose State University for my classes. My advisor said: You are a design major so you take art history classes so next semester you need to take art history classes next semester. This would not work with indirect reasoning with all because it would be I need to take art history classes so I am a design major so I need to take art history classes next semester. This could be true but with indirect reasoning there are many other reasons why I could be taking an art history class.