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The medium of an argument does not determine whether it contains reasons and criticism.
Try the short introduction first, or bring equivalent reading experience. Obtain the specified text before beginning the longer reading.
Compare how a written dialogue and an orally transmitted account preserve a reason, its context and its possible objections.
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Introduces the question and vocabulary used in the longer selected reading.
Sophie Oluwole · book
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.
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Find a copySocrates and Ọ̀rúnmìlà. Arguments about oral traditions, philosophical reasoning and the comparison of Socrates with Ọ̀rúnmìlà. Distinguish a recorded argument from a claim about an entire tradition.
Answer this question in your own words: How can philosophical reasoning be studied in an oral tradition?
Name the claim, then explain why a reader might accept it.
The medium of an argument does not determine whether it contains reasons and criticism.
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Common mistake: Summarising a biography instead of explaining the argument.
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Sophie Oluwole · book
Locate two passages about “How can philosophical reasoning be studied in an oral tradition” using the contents or index. Record their chapter/section names in your notes; this route assigns selections, not the whole work.
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Find a copySocrates and Ọ̀rúnmìlà. Arguments about oral traditions, philosophical reasoning and the comparison of Socrates with Ọ̀rúnmìlà. Distinguish a recorded argument from a claim about an entire tradition.
What would make your activity a convincing example?
Compare how a written dialogue and an orally transmitted account preserve a reason, its context and its possible objections.
A useful response carries out the task: Compare how a written dialogue and an orally transmitted account preserve a reason, its context and its possible objections. It records the observation or passage used and explains how it bears on the question.
What to look for
Common mistake: Presenting an opinion without showing the example it rests on.
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What is one conclusion this reading does not establish?
Test the boundary: Oral traditions have internal differences; the introductory sage-philosophy reading is context, not Oluwole’s own text.
Oral traditions have internal differences; the introductory sage-philosophy reading is context, not Oluwole’s own text.
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Common mistake: Treating a useful interpretation as an unrestricted fact.
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Background, different viewpoints, and further reading.
Arguments about oral traditions, philosophical reasoning and the comparison of Socrates with Ọ̀rúnmìlà. Distinguish a recorded argument from a claim about an entire tradition.
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.