Chapter six in the Epstein text discusses compound claims. The text defines that a compound claim is one composed of other claims, but which has to be viewed as just one claim. Last night while I was out with my friends, my ear caught one of my friends making a compound claim. Two of my friends were playing a drinking game and since Dan lost he had to chug the rest of his large cup. He was trying to avoid it because he knew that it wouldn't be good. Then Dan told Nick, who won, that he was either going to chug the rest of his drink, or buy him a six-pack. By saying that, Dan wasn't promising that he was going to chug the beer, and he also wasn't promising that he was going to buy Nick a six-pack. What Dan did say however, was that he was going to do one or the other. This is a compound claim because two claims are put together to create one claim.
And boom goes the dynamite,
Melvin Banner
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