"... imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise."
-Douglas Adams
My purpose here is to expand Adams' statement into our everyday life. We take so much for granted in our common conversation and social interactions. I hope to elucidate those unseen processes involved in our "average everyday-ness." The posts here will examine the nature of evidence presentation and argumentation, as well as showing examples of each. This should, in turn, give you new analytic tools for use in the constant pursuit of exercising argumentation.
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