CRI 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Thinking, Begging, Fallacy
9 Feb 2016
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Critical thinking thinking about thinking reasonable, reflective, focused on deciding what to believe or do. 2 components: skill of getting and processing information, habit of using this skill. Allows you to understand rational connections detect inconsistencies reflect on your own beliefs separate emotion from fact identify, construct, and evaluate arguments objectively come to logical conclusions. Critical thinking is a prerequisite of effective leadership and good business decisionmaking hiring, seeking funding separate relevance of person from their personality. Arguments: series of statements to persuade someone, made of premises and conclusions.
