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    Recognizing an argument's implicit premises is necessary ... — Carmelics
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    Recognizing an argument's implicit premises is necessary for proper argument evaluation

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    • 1.Implicit premises, like explicit premises, must be evaluated when assessing an argument
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    • 2.Rejecting implicit premises causes the argument to fail to provide convincing evidence for its conclusion
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    • 1.Toulmin's model shows arguments can be adequately evaluated through explicit claims, data, and warrants without excavating all implicit assumptions.
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    • 2.Requiring full explication of implicit premises generates infinite regress, as every premise itself rests on unstated background commitments.
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    • 1.Grice's Cooperative Principle entails that competent interlocutors reliably reconstruct shared implicatures without formal premise identification.
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    • 2.If shared background knowledge makes implicit premises mutually evident, explicit recognition adds no epistemic work to evaluation.
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    Recognizing the argument’s implicit premises prepares the way for argument evaluation, for they, like the argument’s explicit premise, need to be evaluated when the argument is assessed. If we reject the implicit premises (by, e.g., arguing that the goal of criminal penalties should be retribution, not deterrence), then the argument fails to provide convincing evidence for its conclusion.
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