PLG 800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deductive Reasoning, Scientific Method, Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
4 Feb 2019
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Individuals are often too quick to judge, assume, accept or act without giving the issue, question or problem being addressed adequate consideration. As a result, poor or uninformed decisions or actions occur. The practice of observing, evaluating and making logical inferences in order to arrive at a sound judgement or conclusion. Anchored in the capacity of humans for logical reasoning. Like rationalism or the scientific method, critical thinking is a rigorous approach drawing on knowledge and observation to make logical inferences leading to sound judgements, good decisions, and the discovery or recovery of truth. Requires a certain amount of skepticism not to simply accept what you are told or what preliminary observations suggest to you. To seek to be informed by objectivity rather than subjectivity. To avoid fallacies in reasoning wherever possible. A logical argument is a series of connected statements to establish a case or proposition.
