Repairing Arguments

Repairing arguments requires any of the three pieces of criteria to be met in order for a bad argument to be considered repaired. These are:
• the argument needs to become valid or stronger
• the premise is reasonable and would also be reasonable to the other party
• the premise must be more possible than the conclusion

Here is an example of a bad argument that can be repaired: “it was hot today, so the air conditioning will definitely turn on.” To repair this argument, one of the three criteria needs to be met. The argument can become stronger by indicating the temperature that the air conditioning unit will be turned on by, and by comparing that setting to the room temperature. Additionally, if one were to add that it was going to be 110* F at 3:00 in the afternoon, the argument could also be fixed in this manner as that would be considered extremely warm.