What I learned from chapter eight is to use diagrams when finding if an argument is valid or invalid. This method is very helpful because it shows steps of what is right or wrong in argument. The validity with diagram is an enclosed are method where if a conclusion is false, the premises is true. There was a list of words that we should use to find a general claim. For example: all, some, some are not, no, and only s are p. Each of these claims are good to use in a claim which we start with a claim word. Contradict words are used to counter claims. The diagram that we use to represent if a premises is to be true. To find if it is true for example: I wear basketball shoes. If you wear basketball shoes you must be a ball player. Therefore if you play basketball you are tall. The diagram looks likes this to be true:
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