The first presents a goal, strategies for achieving which are being evaluated in the argument; the second is a judgment providing a basis for the argument’s advocacy of a particular strategy. The first present a goal the environmentalist want to achieve, and its two strategies are evaluated; One strategy is outbid the developer, which is unlikely; The other one is to help the farmer modernize their farmland. A conclusion is reached for choosing the second plan to achieve the goal. The second is a judgment on farmers’ reaction, judgment provide a basis for the advocacy of the second strategy. Without such basis, even if they are able to help the farmers modernize the farmland, the farmers will still sell the land to the residential developer and the environmentalist can not achieve their goal.
The first presents a goal that the argument rejects as ill-conceived; the second is evidence that is presented as grounds for that rejection. The passage says that not the goal, the plan, is ill convinced. The second is not an evidence rejecting the main goal, but form a basis for advocating the second strategy in achieve that goal
The first presents a goal that the argument endorses; the second presents a situation that the argument contends must be changed if that goal is to be met in the foreseeable future. The passage did not endorses the goal but the second strategy. The second is not a situation the argument contends, but rather the basis in formation of the second argument. |