MODR 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wardrobe Malfunction, Euphemism, Connotation
1 Mar 2018
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Barriers to critical thinking: psychological and emotional, skewed reasoning, loyalty: enables group cohesion and community. It is a bad thing and an obstacle in thinking critically when a way that a group thinks: provincialism: you have blinders on and your thinking is dedicated to how people in your province thinks. Leads to narrow mindedness: herd instincts: following the herd, following the norm, prejudice, stereotypes: arise from patterns in shared learned behaviours common to a group of people. Conservative party, free speech: prevents you from listening to other people(cid:495)s positions, overlooking facts, procrastination: common sense tells you something should be done today but you put it off for another time. Three components of argumentation: the content, the (cid:494)what(cid:495) Topics, issues and positions: topic: the subject of concern of an inquiry of dispute, normally stated in one or two worlds or a phrase, ex. Just state position in simple terms: yes or no, ex.
