PSY 1009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cycling Infrastructure, Special Pleading, Iceberg

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1009
• Professor: Sheree Louge

Document Summary

Producing an argument about an argument is called critical. Critical thinking should remain logical and not personal. We need to determine what causes the argument and what the motive or agenda behind that argument is. Fact checking- most of the time we need to check if the evidence is real. Always ask questions until you have nothing else to ask. Most of the questions should be on evidence. Truth means when a statement makes sense in it context. Most importantly, truth does not matter if it is true in the real world. A proposition is true if the statement can be replaced by. A fallacy is a misbelief or an incorrect conclusion derived from a wrong or faulty evidence. Example: it is okay to walk on the rail track. A truth must actually be true & a fallacy is a falsehood. Types of fallacies: non sequitur - latin for does not follow .