General Claims

In Chapter 8, Epstein talks about general claims and their contradictories. Epstein describes general claims as  how we assert something about all or part of a collection .There are four words in general claims that can be used in arguments  all, some, no, and only. All means “every single one, no exceptions”. Some means “at least one”. No means “not even one. Only means “no more than”. An example would be all baseball players use steroids to enhance their performance. This claim isn’t true because not every baseball player has tested positive for having steroids in their system. Just because a few baseball players have tested or admitted to using steroids doesn’t mean that every baseball players doing it. Contradictory claims reject the claim is made, you must have a good argument for your contradictory claim to be valid. There is a way to contradict this argument. An example would be, no baseball players use steroids to enhance their performance.