From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Sun Feb 25 20:47:35 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l1Q1lY9D022315 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:47:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (warmfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.88]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l1Q1lT1D060782 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:47:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 15275 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2007 01:47:29 -0000 Received: from mailscan4.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.136) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 26 Feb 2007 01:47:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 8307 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2007 01:47:29 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 26 Feb 2007 01:47:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 7779 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2007 01:47:25 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 26 Feb 2007 01:47:25 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3551941 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:47:25 -0500 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 24995 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2007 01:45:32 -0000 Received: from mailscan5.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.137) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 26 Feb 2007 01:45:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 9804 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2007 01:45:31 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp5.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 26 Feb 2007 01:45:31 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l1Q1jU1M022258 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:45:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l1Q1jUMS022257 for cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:45:30 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200702260145.l1Q1jUMS022257@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:45:30 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE ARGUMENT ANALYSIS To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1335; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2653/Sun Feb 25 16:24:16 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 1238 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE ARGUMENT ANALYSIS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This week in recitation, you will be doing peer editing of Position Paper #2. Keep in mind that your critique is designed to help the author revise his or her first draft. Consequently, your critique should be based primarily on the author's paper and *not* on your own personal opinion. That is, your critique should be primarily "objective": Did the author do everything that was required in terms of evaluating the argument for validity and soundness (including the truth or falsity of the premises)? You can then also give the author the benefit of your own "subjective" (but justified!) opinion, in case that will help to clarify the author's thoughts. Note that this is exactly what *you* should do in writing your own position paper: You first need to "objectively" critique the validity and soundness of the arguments. You can then offer your "subjective"--but justified!--opinion about the conclusion of the argument. (And there will be some "subjectivity" in your analysis of the truth-value of the premises, of course!)