BU121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Argumentum Ad Populum, Critical Thinking, Caveat Emptor
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What: the approach to reading, thinking, and learning that involves asking questions, Are aware of their own biases and use strategies to make judgments. Challenge ideas that seem to be obvious, seek new viewpoints. Listen to other ideas and use that learning to develop own opinions: allows you to improve your own arguments when you write or speak, buyer beware. Critical thinking does not passively accept other ideas; even the ideas of business experts: the sponge: a writer who soaks up information like a sponge is not a critical thinker. Sponging is preliminary& passive step to the next step, which is evaluating and judging ideas. Dimensions of critical thinking: purposeful: trying to settle a problem; focus on central claims of business texts, quality of data and reasons: is the information accurate, claims and the evidence: consider the evidence supporting claims.
