BLG 599 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ad Hominem, Nirvana Fallacy, Standard Deviation
8 Oct 2017
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Listening without responding to what the speaker is saying. Awareness of a set of interrelated critical questions. Ability to ask and answer critical questions at appropriate times. Desire to actively use the critical questions. We bring personal feeling to every decision we make based on experiences, dreams, values, training, and cultural habits. The point of critical thinking is to avoid this as much as possible, or at least delay it until the last stages of thinking. This is the controversy or the question being covered. Descriptive raises questions about the accuracy of other descriptions. Prescriptive raises questions about what we should do or what is. This is the author"s i(cid:374)te(cid:374)ded (cid:373)essage or respo(cid:374)se to the issue. Reasons are the opinions, facts, evidence, statistics, observations and experiences, anecdotes and other statements offered to support or justify conclusions. Ambiguity and loaded language are often done purposefully. Therefore, we need further clarification before we can judge the adequacy of the reasoning.
