SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: False Premise, Agnosticism, Critical Thinking
21 Apr 2016
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Critical thinking is reasonable reflective thinking aimed at deciding what to believe or what to do. 1 ct requires having good epistemic reasons (evidence) 2 how to define our evidence, beliefs and decisions. From a reliable source; not undermined or overridden. 5 valid reasoning about alternatives and necessary and sufficient conditions. We should add more salt to the pot. But this sort of reasoning is also common in the natural and social sciences: 80% of those we surveyed believed that student tuition is too high. Canadians think that tuition rates are too high: driving while on the phone is like driving while drunk, and it is illegal to drive drunk. So it should be illegal to drive while on the phone too: according to the computer models, the storm should last for about 4 hours. In this chapter we will look at when this sort of reasoning is sound. The form of reasoning by perfect analogy is this:
