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Definition: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German philosopher and jurist who became known for his theodicy, arguing that this world is the best of all possible worlds which God could have created. He also argued that reality is composed of an infinite number of "monads," immaterial and indivisible substances.
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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.
