[讨论] 每日一贴 4.3

apan

issue 40
"With the increasing emphasis on a global economy and international cooperation, people need to understand that their role as citizens of the world is more important than their role as citizens of a particular country."
argument 17
The following appeared in an article in a consumer-products magazine.
"Two of today's best-selling brands of full-strength prescription medication for the relief of excess stomach acid, Acid-Ease and Pepticaid, are now available in milder nonprescription forms. Doctors have written 76 million more prescriptions for full-strength Acid-Ease than for full-strength Pepticaid. So people who need an effective bur milder nonprescription medication for the relief of excess stomach acid should choose Acid-Ease."

apan

issue 40.       
“随着对全球经济和跨国公司的关注增加，人们需要理解他们作为世界公民的角色比作为一个特定国家的公民的角色更重要。”

argument 17.       
消费者产品杂志上的文章：
"两种现在最好卖的消除过多胃酸的全效处方药Acid-Ease和Pepticaid现在出现在了较温和的非处方药清单上。医生给全效Acid-Ease比给全效Pepticaid多开了76000000张处方。所以需要有效但较温和的非处方药来消除过多胃酸的人应该选择Acid-Ease。"

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Syllabus for the argument:

1, Firstly, the author overlooks the possibility that the same excess stomach acid may be attributed to different causes, and thus needs different medication. It is very likely that Acid-Ease is much more effective for one cause of excess stomach acid, but not for all.
2. Secondly, the author merely states that the doctors have written 76 million more prescriptions for full-strength Acid-Ease than for full-strength Pepticaid, but fails to tell us where he gets the figure. Does the author get the figure from a specific city, or does he get it through random samples? Does the record correctly reveal the fact? …..Without answers to the questions above, we are not sure about the validity of the figure in this argument.
3, Last but not the least, even if it is true that the doctors have written more prescriptions for full-strength Acid-Ease than for full strength Pepticaid, we should not incautiously conclude that the milder nonprescription of Acid-Ease is better than that of Pepticaid. For one thing, we don’t know the patients’ response for the effectiveness of the full-strength medicine; for the other, we also have no idea whether the milder medication adopts a recipe different from that of the full-strength medication and whether the milder and full-strength medication act the same way.

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