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TOPIC: ARGUMENT37 - Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been unique to the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could only have crossed it by boat, but there is no evidence that the Paleans had boats. And boats capable of carrying groups of people and cargo were not developed until thousands of years after the Palean people disappeared. Moreover, Paleans would have had no need to cross the river-the woods around Palea are full of nuts, berries, and small game. It follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not unique to Palea.
WORDS: 444
TIME: 00:30:00
DATE: 2010-2-9 10:47:59
In this argument, the author claims that since the Palean basket was founded in Lithos, the so-called Palean baskets were not unique to Palean. He also point out some reasons, for instance, the Lithos people were not able to cross the Brim River which is very deep and broad. At the first glance, this conclusion seems to be convincing. However, further reflection tells that it might be very doubtful because of several flaws.
First and foremost, the author thought that the Brim River is too deep to cross for the ancient Paleans, because the boats which are capable for carrying people and cargo were developed until thousands of years later. But this reason is unfounded. At the first place, there is no evidence to prove that the Brim River today might not exist at the ancient time(句式糅杂。该句应该是说不能证明古代也有河,前面已经有了'no evidence'后面就不用might not,双重否定意思反了), thus the Palea people could easily cross this place without big ships. It is also possible that assuming(去掉) this river was lain between those two villages, the people could cross it by building bridge. Without ruling out all these possibilities, this conclusion would not be convincing enough.
In addition the arguer also(与in addition意思重复) said that the Palean people have had no need to cross the river for the reason that they could get full of food(其实题目没有说是full of food,而是部分food比如小动物小果子什么的,也许他们还吃别的要到对岸去获得) at their own side. However, this claim suffers from the flaw that the Palena people were willing to cross the river just for the need of food. But common sense tells us that they might be willing to cross the river for many other needs, such as for communication or for fun. Since the basic assumption is not acceptable, the result might not be good enough to believe.(建议不要用太多not,比如not acceptable可以直接写unacceptable,显得简洁。后面一句not be good enough 也可以直接从正面说unverified之类,简洁少绕弯给人的印象会比较好)
Before I come to my conclusion, there is still a logic flaw in this argument that makes it very doubtful. The author falsely assumes that only by the Palea people's arriving, the so-called Palean basket could be taken to Lithos. Yet there are myriads of other possibilities that the Palean baskets could be taken across the Brim River. It could be taken by some other ancient people while travelling; and it is quiet(quite) possible that some people after that historical period found the Palea baskets and then took them to Litho area before our discovery. Since there are still lots of other ways to take those baskets across this river, we(是the author吧) could (+not) make any sound conclusion before further studies are worked out.
In sum, the arguer's conclusion is lack of evidence and also unconvincing. To make it more sound, the author should provide some other proofs including all the questionable ones discussed above. Not till that, we could accept any conclusion based on these assumptions.
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