Different Kinds of Claims

Some arguments spin forever, and you have sat through them. One person insists the open floor plan is terrible. Another points to a rise in productivity. A third says the company should have asked first. They share a topic, they raise their voices, and they never touch, because each is conducting a different argument under the same words.

This lesson explains why. Not every statement is the same kind of statement, and each kind answers to a different test. A claim about what happened, a claim about right and wrong, and a report of personal taste cannot be settled by the same method, and confusing them is what keeps a dispute permanently stuck. You will learn to sort any statement into its proper category before you reach for evidence, which means you will resolve disagreements that others abandon as hopeless.

The lesson gives you the categories and the test that belongs to each. The course shows you how to apply them under pressure.