argument 1

In this argument the arguer suggest that Woven baskets which used to be thought to have been made only by the Palean people were not uniquely Palean. In order to support his argument the author referred to that a basket resembling the Palean baskets are also discovered in Lithos as an evidence. However, as discussed below, the argument suffers from several critical flaws and is therefore unpersuasive.

In the first place, the author unfairly assumes that such “Palea” baskets found in Lithos are exactly the Woven baskets found in Palean. However it is not necessarily this case. More ev...