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Exercise 3

1. Make a Rationale Reasoning map of this form:

Use these claims:

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Hints:

• Identify the position. It helps to ask: does this box contain the main issue, or is it a claim that suggests we should believe another claim is true or false?
• Work out which is the upper level objection: this claim directly undermines the position. Turn this claim into a red objection and add it to the map under the position.
• Work out which is the lower level objection: this claim undermines the other objection.  Turn this claim box into a red objection, and when you connect it under the existing objection it will automatically convert to an orange rebuttal box.
• The remaining claim must be the reason that supports the upper level objection, that is, a reason for thinking that objection is a good one

2. Check your work against the model.

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