Teaching a course in the use of Toulmins model of argumentation has the unexpected sideeffect that my brain wants to label the elements in any argument I encounter during the day. It feels like having a little voice whispering: claim, data, backing, rebuttal, etc. The effects may wear off, but right now my world is the rhetorical answer to the way Neo is able to see thhrough the code in the Matrix.
Scary… – I think they are coming to take me away, haha…