You’ve caught someone trying to steal first base: Now what? You have identified the feeling that the other person is making unwarranted assumptions, and held up one finger to indicate “Hold on a minute.” In short, you suspect a BZL 1. How do you identify the assumption you disagree with? There are a couple steps …
Every time that Perry Mason objected that District Attorney Hamilton Burger was “assuming facts not in evidence”, he was accusing Berger of using BZL 1. The essence of this argument is to skip over one or more of the key premises that would have to be proven in a good argument. A classic example is …
My mother was an avid birdwatcher. From her I learned that there are many species of birds that look similar, but can only be distinguished by tiny details. So, birdwatchers in the wild will take along a book called a “field guide” to help with on-the-spot identification. One of the best known was Roger Tory …