BU121 Lecture Notes - Soundness
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Understand and analyzing what we are learning about. Frame of mind strategies to review whether or not to believe what we read or hear. Uncontested claims claims you will just accept you don"t need more information to believe it. There are cues and indicator words in summary, etc: 4 conditions (pg. 158) where you accept claims without a challenge: consistent with your own experience and observation, fact that is independent of some ones opinion, when there is agreement among experts range of consensus. If it is a technical or mathematical claim. Contested claims needing evidence and proof to believe what is being said: examine and evaluate the evidence given to justify the claim. Application: be clear with ideas, use visuals, don"t beat around the bush": don"t bury the lead (newspaper articles do this, use cue words, headings and subheadings. Role of a claim: trying to persuade you to believe what they are saying.
