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Features
- Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc.
- Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations.
- Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises and implications.
- Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations.
- Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions.
- Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation.
- Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak.
- Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support.
- Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument.
- Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc.
- Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional.
- Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc.
- Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping , appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence.
- Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical.
Publisher's Information
Authors: William O'Meara, Ph.D and Daniel Flage, Ph.D
Pages: 544, perforated
Activities:65 critical thinking related skills and concepts
Black & White: Yes
Binding:
Paperback
Copyright:
2011
ISBN: 9781601441454
Publisher:
The Critical Thinking Co
Printed In: USA
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