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◆ ClaimCraft Learn 🎓 Teach 🗺️ Adventure 🤝 Together 🔁 Review ⋯ More 🧭 My Journey Teach the Cast Some of ClaimCraft’s cast are still learning. When you teach them, YOU learn it best — catch what they get wrong, then quiz them.
✕ Teach Pry You be the teacher — Pry is still learning. Helping Pry figure it out is the practice. (Pry's progress stays on this device; nothing is sent anywhere.)
🎓 In a minute you'll be the teacher. Get ready to teach Pry: spotting a fallacy means checking whether the REASONING actually holds up.
A fallacy is a broken link between the evidence and the claim. Check your own argument first — naming a fallacy isn't winning.
Teach the connections
Show how the argument-building ideas connect You've helped them one at a time. The real understanding is how the ideas CONNECT — teach that next.
Heft (evidence — the facts you weigh with care) × Lean (warrant — the BECAUSE that connects evidence to a claim)
You cite a fact, but a listener asks so what. What is missing — and how do Heft and Lean fit?
The warrant is missing — Lean explains WHY Heft's fact supports the claim; evidence needs a because Nothing is missing; a fact proves a claim all by itself Heft and Lean are the same thing named twice
Heft then says: “If I just pile up enough facts, the argument makes itself — no reasoning needed.” — is that right?
No — each fact needs Lean's warrant explaining why it supports the claim; facts alone do not connect Right, facts speak for themselves
The link: evidence is inert until a warrant connects it — Lean carries Heft to the claim.
A fact, and the because that makes it count.
Posit (claim — the point you assert for testing) × Temper (qualifiers and scope — match a claim's strength to its evidence)
The claim teens never read is easy to refute with one counterexample. What does Temper do to Posit?
Temper right-sizes the claim (many teens read less) to match the evidence, so one exception does not sink it Temper makes every claim as strong as possible for maximum impact Qualifiers and claims are unrelated
Posit then says: “Always make your claim as sweeping as possible — everyone and always sound strongest.” — is that right?
No — Temper matches the claim to the evidence; usually survives where always is sunk by one exception Right, sweeping is always best
The link: a claim must fit its evidence — Temper right-sizes what Posit asserts.
Claim exactly as much as your evidence carries.
Capstone — build one argument together Three moves of a sturdy argument. Bring in the cast member for each.
Put your point on the table as something to test. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Posit — the claim Heft — the evidence Grant — the concession
Supply the BECAUSE that connects your evidence to that claim. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Lean — the warrant Onus — burden of proof Gloss — definitions
Take the other side's strongest version seriously and answer it. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Counter — the counterargument Temper — qualifiers Footing — hidden assumptions
The synthesis: a claim to test, a warrant to connect the evidence, and a fair answer to the other side — an argument built to hold, not just to win.
Claim, connect, answer — an argument that holds.
Try it in the argument tools →
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