What is fast thinking, automatic, immediate, and often controlled by our emotions.
100
Values
What is the unstated ideas that someone thinks are worthwhile. Standards of conduct
100
A fallacy that ignores someone's actual position and presents a distorted or oversimplified version instead
Straw man
100
Implicit preference for one value over another
What is a value assumption
100
Assumes there are only two possible answers to a question that actually has multiple potential answers
What is Dichotomus Thinking
200
System 2 Thinking
What is slow thinking whereby we use our brains absorb and evaluate information
200
Autonomy, Curiosity, Humility, Respect
What are the primary values of a critical thinker
200
An assumption that a proposed step will set off an uncontrollable chain of undesired events, when procedures exist to prevent such an event.
What is Slippery Slope
200
Exploring an argument from the perspective of someone else
What is reverse role-playing
200
Assuming that a particular event, B, is caused by another event, A simply because B follows A in time.
What is Post Hoc
300
Panning for gold
What is actively reading and listening to determine the worth (evaluate) of the information
300
Argument
A combination of two forms of statements: a conclusion and the reasons supporting it
300
An attempt to justify a claim by appealing to sentiments that large groups of people have in common, Falsely assume that anything favored by a large group is desirable.
What is Appeal to Popularity
300
The taking for granted of one meaning for a term that has multiple possible meanings
What is a definitional assumption
300
Explaining an event by relying on causal factors that are insufficient to account for the event by overemphasizing the role of one or more factors.
What is Causal Oversimplification
400
Weak sense Critical Thinking
What is use of critical thinking to defend your beliefs
400
Ambiguity
What is the existence of multiple possible meanings for a word/phrase
400
An attack on the person, rather than directly addressing the person's reasons.
What is Ad Hominem
400
Terms that trigger strong emotional reaction
What are loaded terms
400
Time & space, quick arguments, incomplete knowledge, deceiving arguments, differing values, beliefs, and attitudes from yours.
What is incomplete resoning
500
Strong sense Critical Thinking
What is using your skills to evaluate all claims and beliefs
500
Assumption
What is a belief usually unstated , that is taken for granted and supports the explicit reasoning
500
Falsely assuming that because part of a problem remains after a solution is tried, the solution should not be adopted.
What is Searching for the perfect solution
500
Unstated assertions about value priorities that function as value assumptions.