A topic that I found interesting just happened to be on the first page of Chapter 6 in Epstein's Critical Thinking. Compound claim's are used more times than you may think. Simply put, a compound claim is a claim that is composed of other claims, which has to be viewed as just one claim. A common word that connects multiple claims in a compound claim is "or."
When thinking about this topic, I find that it is easiest to understand when you use an example. So here is mine... "I will clean the dishes or I will have some one else clean them." Here in this sentence, two separate claims are made in to one. Did I promise to clean the dishes? No. Did I promise to have some one else clean the dishes? No. Although it may sound like I did make two promises, I actually just made one; which is that I will do one or the other. So even though it sounds like two claims, they are both considered to be covered under the same claim, which is called a compound claim.
Hi there Kalem! I found that this topic was pretty interesting and wrote about it as well. The example you gave works very nicely into this topic. I agree to your example that it is a compound claim because it does proclaim only one claim, not two. Sometimes I think people get very confused about compound claims, thinking that there are two claims because it sounds like two different things, so I am glad you talked about this. I can imagine people saying, “I will clean the dishes or I will have some one else clean them” everyday because I know I do. But in my case, I have to do the dishes because I feel bad if my roommates do it for me.
ReplyDeletehey, the topic that you have picked was interesting because the example you gave for us to understand was great. the way you explained the concept of compound claim was excellent to what the book have gave us to read. i will have to agree to what you have put on the example because even though there is two claims in the compound claim, it really shows that the claim weren't promise but consequences behind them. but i'm glad the you gave us the small compound claim that was for us to understand than what i had put out on my site. great job and keep up the good work.
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