Sufficiency
This principle is a judgment call. Checklist:
- Are the reasons provided enough to drive to the arguer’s conclusion?
- Is the premise based on insufficient evidence or faulty causal analysis? Some premises provide evidence that is based on too small a sample or unrepresentative data.
- Is some key or crucial evidence missing that must be provided in order to accept the argument?
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