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Monty Button And The Holy Grail Analysis

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There are good and bad arguments that people makes in order to make their reasoning valid. The argument that is going to be exposed in this essay is about the story “Monty Payton and the Holy Grail: Peasant Scene” In this story the king Arthur enter in a conversation with Dennis calling him “old woman”. Why Dennis thought automatically that the king was treating him inferior? Because the king doesn’t show any respect calling him “old woman” without taking his time to find out who was that person. This deductive argument has three premises that attempts to prove the conclusion. The premises or evidence for this argument are when David argues, “I’m thirty seven, I’m not old”, “you could say Dennis”, and “you didn’t bother to find out, did you?”

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