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BUILDING ARGUMENTS
BUILDING ARGUMENTS
BUILDING ARGUMENTS
BUILDING ARGUMENTS
1.
BUILDING ARGUMENTS
3. The Warrant -- A general principle that explains why
you think your evidence is relevant to your claim
4. Acknowledgment and Response -- Qualifications
which make your claim and evidence more precise
BUILDING ARGUMENTS
You
BUILDING ARGUMENTS
But most evidence - reason - claim relationships are
not so simple.
They require two further elements: a warrant and
acknowledgements/responses.
A warrant is a general principal that serves as a bridge
between your claim and your evidence -- it explains
how your evidence is both accurate and relevant to
your claim.
BUILDING ARGUMENTS
Warrant = Janus, or Jekyll & Hyde
A warrant is a general principal that serves as a bridge
between your claim
and your evidence
it explains how your evidence
is both accurate and relevant to
your claim.
BUILDING ARGUMENTS
Warrant = Janus, or Jekyll & Hyde
A warrant is a way of tapping into the assumptions
that the audience makes about
the argument
Ralph Beliveau
Williams Dream Worlds
ORconsumption is not just for tubercular patients anymore.
We often hear the argument concerning the 'tragedy of commons'; about how goods and
services become inefficient if they are open for all to exploit and use. However, there is
also the other side; 'the tragedy of markets' when every bid of knowledge and creative
expression become privatised. We need to get the balance right and the current trend in
IPR legislation does not seem to do that.
In the Shadow of the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) System By Dr Birgitte Andersen
Published Monday, 12 September, 2005 - 16:39
Lesson
Williams theory
Where
WILLIAMS ARGUMENTS
1.
WILLIAMS ARGUMENTS
1. The Claim -- What she wants you to believe:
The 1900 exposition incarnates a conjunction
between imaginative desires and material ones,
between dreams and commerce, between events of
collective consciousness and economic fact.
OR
Where would we find the sale of material culture to
a mass public? In the Expositions that connected
desire to commodities.
WILLIAMS ARGUMENTS
WILLIAMS ARGUMENTS
2. The Evidence -- What you will use to support the
claim
The school of trocadero; reproductions of vastly
different places and styles were heaped together,
portable, fragmented
Representing a kind of consumer imperialism
Merchandising appeals to the fantasies of the
consumer
Reveriesdreams and desiresare passed off as
realities
WILLIAMS ARGUMENTS
3. The Warrant -- A general principle that explains
why you think your evidence is relevant to your
claim; What general principle must I believe before
I can agree that your evidence supports your
claim?
WILLIAMS ARGUMENTS
3. The Warrant -- A general principle that explains
why you think your evidence is relevant to your
claim; What general principle must I believe before
I can agree that your evidence supports your
claim?
WARRANTS=PATHOS
Assumes that there is some desire to understand
the source of consumer fetishism, and a desire to
limit it (not celebrate it)
WILLIAMS ARGUMENTS