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A claim is a substantive statement about a thing, such as an idea, event, individual, or belief. It's truth or falsity is open to debate. It's truth or falsity is open to debate. Arguments or beliefs may be offered in support, and criticisms and challenges of affirming contentions may be offered in rebuttal.
For example, a right to use one's computer can be thought of as a liberty right, but one has a power right to let somebody else use your computer (granting them a liberty right), as well as a claim right against others using the computer; and further, you may have immunity rights protecting your claims and liberties regarding the computer.
Arguments address problems of belief, explanations address problems of understanding. In the argument above, the statement, "Fred's cat has fleas" is up for debate (i.e. is a claim), but in the explanation, the statement, "Fred's cat has fleas" is assumed to be true (unquestioned at this time) and just needs explaining. [19]
[54] [3] Other types take more positive approaches by defending and justifying philosophical claims, for example, based on what sounds insightful or odd to the average English speaker. [10] One problem for ordinary language philosophy is that regular speakers may have many different reasons for using a certain expression.
In a statement first reported by The Hill responding to Trump's jail threat, Cheney focused on Trump's role in the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, not her own defense.
From his stances on vaccines to industrial farming and abortion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces tough questions from senators.
A transcendental argument is a kind of deductive argument that appeals to the necessary conditions that make experience and knowledge possible. [1] [2] Transcendental arguments may have additional standards of justification which are more demanding than those of traditional deductive arguments. [3]
For example, if you earn $80,000 annually, you should target about $240,000 in savings by age 40 and $480,000 by age 50. How much do most Americans retire with?