6.2 & 6.2.1
Critical thinkers are curious by nature.
What is Inquisitive?
Critical thinkers have faith in the power of logic and sound reasoning.
What is Confident Reasoning?
When we construct our statements, argue our point of view, and in a myriad of other ways.
The conclusions is assumed to be bad because the arguments are bad. Argument is bad and there the conclusions is bad or invalid.
What is Bad Reason Fallacy?
Most popular appeal fallacies appeal to authority, emotion, ignorance, and pity.
What is Fallacies of Appeal?
Critical thinkers are open and receptive to all ideas and arguments, even those with which they may disagree.
What is Open-Mindedness?
Critical thinkers exercise an ethical foundation based in Ethos searching for the truth.
What is Truth-Seeking?
Understanding how logic is used will help us...
What is Communicate More Efficiently?
Involves a substitution of parties. If the two things we substitute are identical, and then the argument is valid.
What is Masked Man Fallacy?
We argue that the proposition must be accepted unless someone can prove otherwise.
What is Appeal to Ignorance?
people will be able to hear out the opposing side without jumping to conclusion.
What is Using Critical Thinking?
Critical thinkers are interested in understanding what is happening in a message.
What is Analytic Nature?
An argument which the truth of its premises guarantees the truth of its conclusions.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
"The new employee is too quiet and has no sense of style. We should fire him." is an example of what term.
What is Bad Reason Fallacy
Identified through analysis of the context of the premises, and it has an error in reasoning.
What is Informal Fallacy?
Active, persistent, careful consideration of a belief or supposed from of knowledge in light of the grounds that support it and the further conclusions to which its tends, and must be done by choice
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinkers avoid jumping to conclusions. Critical thinkers take the time to systematically examine a message.
What is Systematic By Method?
The opposite of deductive reasoning, this approach is not wholly accurate.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
An error an error in the structure of the argument. In other words, the conclusion doesn’t follow from the premises.
What is Formal Fallacy?
When we shift our focus from the premises and conclusions of the argument and focus instead of the individual making the argument.
What is Genetic Fallacy?
Critical thinkers are prudent in acting and making judgments. Critical thinkers are sensible in their actions.
What is Judicious?
Considered the father of Modern Critical Thinking
Who is John Dewey?
the need to not have three components to its argument, but it must at least have three.
What is Syllogism?
Evolves around the grammatical structure of the proposition. The focus is on the use of some sort of quantifying words such as all or some.
What is Fallacy of Quantitative Logic?
When we appeal authority, we claim the truth of a proposition is guaranteed because of the opinion of a famous person, and we see this play regularly in commercials featuring doctors' lawyers or other professionals.
What is Appeal to Authority?