PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Forensic Science, Purr, Co-Premise
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Provide you with tools to effectively process the flow of information from papers, books, lectures, tv, the internet, enabling you to. Figure out how information can enrich our intellectual lives and help us manage practical affairs. Organize material to write papers try to persuade others to share your beliefs. Defend your words and actions against others recognize that some internet postings are nonsense. Figure out movies and stories about e. g. crime investigation. Recognizing and evaluating arguments: judging whether evidence supports a conclusion. Understanding and analyzing the meaning of information way. Judging what information is relevant to a particular issue and whether it is evidence for the truth of an assertion. To understand meanings we need to pay attention to the circumstances or context in which words are written or spoken. Not all writing and speech is concerned with conveying information. Some writing and speech has mainly expressive content.
