Claims-G00dSoup

Posted on February 15, 2023 by g00dsoup

Hovda says some of the Army’s best doctors implied that if soldiers were told they needed rest after concussions, it was going to usher in an epidemic of fakers, or retired guys claiming disability way after the fact.
In terms of evaluative claims, the following would be an example. It is as a result of the circumstances the soldiers have lived through that they are assessing their judgement at this moment. Obviously, if the soldiers were told that they could rest after a concussion, that would give them an excuse as to why they should be given the right to rest.

“There’s good rehabilitation strategies: learn what your deficits are, learn that you’re not going crazy, that you just can’t do what you used to do,”
The claim that is being made here is an evaluative one. As the author discusses two rehabilitation strategies in the article, this can be argued in light of the author’s discussion of them. You might not find learning about your weaknesses to be the most effective strategy for you.

“The human brain has an enormous amount of plasticity. New cells are born every day. New connections can be made. The good news is, teleologically speaking, if we didn’t have the ability to recover from brain injury, we’d have ended up as somebody’s breakfast.”In short, brain plasticity refers to the ability of the brain to change its connections or rewire itself to accommodate new information. In the absence of this ability, any brain, not just the human brain, would not be able to develop from infancy to adulthood or to recover from a brain injury.

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  1. davidbdale says:
    February 27, 2023 at 7:31 pm

    Hovda says some of the Army’s best doctors implied that if soldiers were told they needed rest after concussions, it was going to usher in an epidemic of fakers, or retired guys claiming disability way after the fact.
    You say: In terms of evaluative claims, the following would be an example. And you’re certainly right about that. But . . .

    —The Author is making an Attributive Claim in two words: “Hovda says.” This distances the claim from the Author. She’s attributing it to Hovda.
    —Hovda doesn’t take credit for the claim, either. Hovda says “Some of the Army’s best doctors implied.”
    —Hovda is making a Credibility Claim by describing his sources as “the best.”
    —Hovda is also making a Comparison Claim by indicating it’s not ALL doctors, but the BETTER doctors who he trusts.
    —Finally, it’s those doctors (according to Hovda; we have to take him at his word) that IMPLY (meaning they didn’t say so directly, so we have to trust Hovda’s interpretation) that if soldiers were TOLD they NEEDED rest, they would fake concussions to GET the time off or disability payments.
    —Hard to say whether the doctors or Hovda are drawing the conclusion, but the Causal Claim is that sharing a diagnosis and treatment regimen for concussion with soldiers would RESULT in abuse of the policy.
    —And THAT has to be an Evaluative Claim that soldiers are cheaters looking for any excuse to shirk or take advantage.
    —So, yes, absolutely, we’re getting a deeply Evaluative Claim from Hovda, but so much more than that.

    Graded.

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