2). What was useful about the Mission Critical webiste?
The Mission Critical website was useful when I got to the section about Burden of Proof Fallacies. I never quite understood how asking someone to prove something was a fallacy but this section made it so clear, I didn’t know how I didn’t see it before. It clearly showed how asking someone else to prove something you’re trying to argue isn’t the right way to go about it. If you’re trying to convince them, then you’re the one who has to show them the proof. I assume someone would shift the burden of proof when he or she can’t come up with premises or claims that are reasonable to support their argument. I liked the exercises at the end of this section, also. It clearly shows me how a burden of proof fallacy is obvious. For example, one exercise showed that someone saying, “She must be guilty. After all, she has no alibi for the night of the crime,” is a burden of proof fallacy because the person is making the accused person now have the burden of proof to prove he or she is not guilty.
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Burden of Proof concept at first was a little confusing to me as well. Didn’t understand why would I have to prove my argument. As you stated this website did make it understand the concept that much more. And that the ways we sometimes try to prove an argument is not always the right way. I think that at one point we have all shifted the burden to someone else. I like the way that you organized your information and the layout of your posting is really good the fact that you lay out the information right in the beginning in the post. Overall your blog was very useful and good job.
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