Evaluating Truth and Validity Exercise

Evaluating Truth and Validity
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Critical thinking is a concept that deals with the ability of one to think clearly and rationally. A person with critical thinking is able to understand logical relations in ideas and solve problems in a rationally. Critical thinking therefore follows a strict method that involves rationalism and reasoning to deem an idea valid or invalid. Most critical thinking involves itself with deductive argument where the truth of the conclusion of an argument is measured against the premises stated. Often, many arguments state one premise and the other is hidden as it may be considered obvious. For instance, three arguments below will be evaluated in order to determine the validity and truth of their conclusion (Vocabulary Describing Arguments. par 3).
Having great wealth is a worthy goal because it is difficult to attain and many famous people have pursued it.
In this statement, there is hidden premise which is rather assumed obvious from the argument. The full description of the argument would be: having great wealth is worthy goal because it is difficult to attain and many famous people have pursue great wealth. Therefore is right to say that anything that is difficult to attain and is pursued by famous people is a worthy goal.
The first premise of the argument states that wealth is a worthy goal that one should pursue in. To strengthen the premise, it is followed by the second premise that states that it is difficult for one to attain wealth. Lastly, the argument states that famous people have pursued wealth. Therefore according to the argument, difficult things pursued by famous people are worth goals. This is especially true in that a big number of famous people are relatively wealthy. Only a small number of people who are not wealthy are not famous. According to this premise, the status of fame is fundamentally based on wealth and thus many famous people become so as they are in search of wealth. Conceptually, famous people such as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa are famous for not being wealthy but because they defied the conventional pursuit of accumulating wealth. From this argument it is possible to argue that wealth is a worthy goal for one to pursue as it satisfies ones wants. People who defied wealth have had to deny themselves a lot of things that they would otherwise need and have (Ruggiero, Ch. 8, 2012).
The second part argues that it is difficult for one to attain wealth. Looking at the previous example of Gandhi and Teresa, it is enough to show just how difficult it is for one to attain wealth. This is because, the two famous (and not wealthy) people, did give up wealth so that they could make a better life for normal and majority of the people who were rather impoverished. If all of us have one common thing, then, the value of that particular thing is lost. For instance, the value of affording a meal is not as high as it is affording a quality meal. This is because, a relatively smaller number of people afford a quality meal than does those who simply afford a meal (Ruggiero, Ch. 9, 2012)..
Lastly, the argument states that it famous people purse wealth. This is especially true when the argument leans on famous business people down to famous peopl...