ARGUMENT IDENTIFICATION

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Putting It All Together -- KEY:

The keys for the "Putting It All Together" sections will be much more sketchy than the others, primarily because the work you do in these sections will feed directly into the work you do on the paper assignment that is your final exercise.  Thus, you will be given hints and general advice on this passage.  First, you are well advised to number your sentences so that you can refer to them by number as you analyze the text.  

On one reading of this chapter, it contains seven arguments.  They are as follows, marked by conclusion and page number:

  1. Free Will is compatible with omniscience (62-3).

  2. Man cannot understand the world, given that they see only a small part of it and fail to appreciate that connectedness is everything (64-5).

  3. Our ability to "know" is tied to a very limited scale and type, so we are unable to appreciate what there really is.  (The upshot: we take things to be important that really aren't.) (66-7)

  4.  Frustrations of order and the historic process (partial)  (67-8).

  5. Importance as grounded in different types of organization, some of which support expression.  Importance and expression are converse relationships (68-9).

  6. "Things come and go" (70-1).

  7. Grendel is the Improver of the Danes (72-3).


To complete this exercise, you need to identify the reasons that are associated with each of these conclusions.

 

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