Building Your Own Argument
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Construction inverts critique: fix the claim, choose a valid form to carry it, supply premises you can actually defend, and pre-check the twin fallacy of your chosen form.
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A conclusion needing MP needs a defensible conditional and a defensible antecedent — two burdens, chosen deliberately.
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Most weak arguments were never designed; they accreted. Form-first construction is the alternative.