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- Oct 2023
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Teachers may not tell students to go out and shoot the president. "Hate speech" is also prohibited: a teacher does not have the right to spout racial slurs.
This is a great example of why general statements are not always true since teachers do have the right to express themselves in a classroom it does not mean they have the right to be telling students "hate speech".
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If there is an exception that the argument hasn’t accounted for, that may point us to a weak spot that we should mention in our assessment. Often, a particular claim or reason may sound plausible, but we need to slow down and ask if it is true in all cases. For example, take the following argument:
This comes to show that general statements does not make them entirely true.
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“We cannot do without it
This does not really specify. This is an example of equivocation.
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