Paradigm case argument
Hey there, kiddo! Have you heard of the paradigm case argument? It's a kind of argument that helps people understand what a certain word means. Let me explain it to you just like you're 5 years old!
Imagine you're playing a game with your friends and one of them says, "That's not fair!" What do they mean by that? They might mean that someone is cheating, or that they didn't get a turn, or something else. But how do we know what "fair" really means?
That's where the paradigm case argument comes in. We look at examples of when things are fair and when they're not and use those as a guide for what the word means. For example, if you and your friends are all taking turns and everyone gets the same amount of turns, that's a fair game.
So when someone says, "That's not fair," we can think about what a fair situation would look like and use that as a guide for what they mean. The paradigm case argument helps us understand what a word means by looking at examples of when it's used correctly.
Does that make sense, kiddo?
Imagine you're playing a game with your friends and one of them says, "That's not fair!" What do they mean by that? They might mean that someone is cheating, or that they didn't get a turn, or something else. But how do we know what "fair" really means?
That's where the paradigm case argument comes in. We look at examples of when things are fair and when they're not and use those as a guide for what the word means. For example, if you and your friends are all taking turns and everyone gets the same amount of turns, that's a fair game.
So when someone says, "That's not fair," we can think about what a fair situation would look like and use that as a guide for what they mean. The paradigm case argument helps us understand what a word means by looking at examples of when it's used correctly.
Does that make sense, kiddo?