Refutation

Image via Wikipedia

REFUTATION:

FOUR STEP REFUTATION PROCESS

1. YOU SAY

2. WE DISAGREE

3. BECAUSE

4. THEREFORE

DIFFERENT WAYS TO REFUTE:

·     HERE IS ANOTHER ARGUMENT THAT PROVES THE OPPOSITE.

·     YOUR PROOF OF THE ARGUMENT IS INSUFFICIENT.

·     YOUR ARGUMENT IS NOT SO IMPORTANT:

o  Outweighed by costs

o  Getting smaller all the time

o  People do not care

o  Small number

o  Based on false assumption

o  Each instance is small even if a lot of them

o  Tiny part of greater whole

o  Voluntary risk

o  Can be reversed

o  Highly improbable

WHEN TO REFUTE:

§  Important, not the unimportant

§  Select issues that transcend a single argument

§  Refute their strength

EXERCISE:

§  Hear a 1^stspeech

§  Take 3 minutes to refute

§  Tell us what you were trying to do