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Definition: Legalism is the ethical theory according to which the moral qualities of good and evil, right and wrong, are determined by legal rules which are applicable at all times, in all places and in all circumstances. Thus, when a person follows those rules, that person can be judged as "good" and when a person ignores them, that person is judged as "bad."
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What is an Argument?
It helps to know what, exactly, an argument is before you can critique one and tell what is wrong with it. Sometimes, people say they are making arguments when they are not!How do you critique an argument?
Assuming that we have established that we have an actual argument, the next step is to examine it for validity. There are two points on which an argument might fail: its premises or its inferences.
