CR 6 - Making a Statement

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New Data

Predictions

Casual Relationships

Different Interpretations

Your claim is a conclusion you reach when you are trying to decide what to say about a subject.

Claim of Value

People often disagree about matters of value: Aesthetic and Morality

Example: Black cats don't look very good in photos

Example: Bathing suits have gotten too skimpy

Desirable or undesirable based on moral or aesthetic principles

CR 6 - Making a Statement

Claim of Policy

Example: More black cats should be adopted by diminishing superstitions.

Example: Sunscreen products should be more closely regulated

States that a specific course of action should be implemented

Claim of Fact

Example: Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day

Example: Excess sun exposure causes skin cancer.

States that a condition exists, has existed, or will exist, based on factual evidence