The topic of this week is deductive reasoning. Accordingly, in this discussion your task is to create a deductively valid argument for your position-here is that argument: (the same position that you defended in the Week One discussion).
Do social media Interactions enhance interpersonal skills?
Argument for social media as a tool for enhancing interpersonal skills.
Premise 1: Social media gives people a change to interact with more people than they can do in real life.
Premise 2: Interacting with more people enhances intercultural interactions.
Premise 3: The more the number of people and cultures one interacts with, the better their interpersonal skills
.Conclusion: Therefore, social media enhances interpersonal skills. The argument supports the fact that social media enhances interpersonal communication. It looks at the main strength of social media in interpersonal life, which is a wider scope of friends. The main strength of the deductive argument is that it can be proven by evidence. Many people have more friends on Facebook than they do in real life. In addition, many people are able to interact with very many cultures worldwide, since social media is not limited by physical boundaries. In addition, the premises lead to each other. The first premise gives the point on masses. The second premise capitalizes on the first, mentioning that it is not only the large numbers that one meets on social media, but also the cultural diversity found in the numbers. This is the strongest argument. One weakness is that it does not seem real. Anyone will want to believe that real life communication enhances interpersonal skills better.Argument against social media as a tool of enhancing interpersonal skills.
Premise 1: In virtual platforms with millions of people watching, it is impossible to dispose personal issues, and so communication limits are restricted
Premise 2: Too much privacy (due to restrictions) between friends, co-workers, friends, and relatives affects interpersonal skills negatively.
Premise 3: Social media is virtual communication where the public can see ones posts.Conclusion: Therefore, social media restricts free communication reducing close and free interpersonal skills.
This argument is strong in several aspects. First, it takes the real life perception of social media. Secondly, it looks at interpersonal skills as something that require privacy. In real life, it has been clear that people who have given too much personal information on social media ends up wrecked emotionally, and hardly finds help. People keep their personal and sensitive information that includes stress and their stress from their social media friends. This information is shared in real life. The first premise leads to the second and the third, which then leads to the conclusion, making the argument a deductive argument. However, this argument, like any other argument fails to recognize the other side of the story. It does not consider factors like the wider friends’ zone on social media, and the greater extents of cultural interactions.
(the same position that you defended in the Week One discussion).
To prepare to respond to this prompt, make sure to read carefully over the required portions of Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. View the deLaplante (2013) video What Is a Valid Argument? (Links to an external site.) For more guidance about how to construct a valid argument for a controversial position, review the Constructing a Valid Argument
video and the document How to Construct a Valid Deductive Argument .Based on the sources, create a deductively valid argument for the position you defended in the Week One discussion.
To make your argument deductively valid, you will need to make sure that there is no possible way that your premises could be true and your conclusion false. Your premises must lead logically to the truth of your conclusion. Make sure that your argument is sound, that is in addition to being valid, make sure that the premises are true as far as you can tell. If your argument is invalid or if it has a false premise, revise it until you get an argument that you can stand behind.
Identify the components and structure of your argument by presenting your deductively valid argument in standard form, and explain how your conclusion follows from your premises.
