[COMM 2663] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (12 pages long!)

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Communications
• Course: COMM 2663
• Professor: Gilbert V.Wilkes

Document Summary

This can be your own example or from the emmel. All humans are mortal. (major premise- unstated) Therefore, socrates is mortal. (conclusion - stated) Ramona was a highschool student that had an argument about how highschool relationships are harmful . Her enthymeme was unsuccessful because the term highschool relationship was vague and did not mean the same to other students. She justified her argument by defining and refining the term that originally had meaning for her but mean differently to others. Education has to bridge the gap between the bewildering complexity of primary observation. the student has to see in images the simple and the relative simplicity of that relevant image principle of the system and its basic process. Perceptual abstraction is developed by reference to abstraction in primitive representation, priority of global perceptual features, perceptual concepts, representational concepts, and by noting that representation requires abstract form. He uses his imagination to present the basic essentials of the subject.