What Dr. FreeRide Says about Sarah Palin

Link: Adventures in Ethics and Science: Argumentation: FAIL..

One of the big things philosopher-types like to do with their students is work on extracting arguments from a piece of text and reconstructing them. This can be useful in locating sources of disagreement, whether they be specific premises or inferences.

But some chunks of text that seem like they ought to have arguments that can be extracted and reconstructed end up being ... opaque.

For example, this question and answer between Katie Couric and Sarah Palin (transcript by way of Shakesville):

Really, you should go read the whole thing.