ABSTRACT
It is worth re-stressing a point introduced in Chapter 1 (p. 18), namely that in reconstructing arguments with generalisations, we should always supply missing quantifi ers. We often run across arguments like this:
The government’s policy is based on the claim that violent offenders reoffend. I resent and refute this claim utterly. My nephew was imprisoned in his late teens on an armed robbery conviction but unlike a lot of these wasters he thoroughly sorted himself out; he’s now been married with a steady job for many years and there is no way he’s going to commit a crime again.
