SSH 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Peer Pressure, Critical Thinking, Meech Lake Accord
28 Mar 2013
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Critical thinking: the systematic evaluation or formulation of belief, or statements, by rational standards. A question about the quality of your beliefs is a fundamental concern of critical thinking. Statement: is an assertion that something is or is not the case. Statements or claims are the kind of thing that is either true or false. Argument: the combinations of statements providing reason for accepting another statement. In other terms an argument must consist of at least one or more premises and one conclusion. A premise is a statement of reason given in support of another statement. Conclusion: the statement that the premises are intended to support. An argument gives us reasons for believing that something is the case- that a claim is true or probably true. An explanation tells us why or how something is the case. Indicator words: that frequently accompanies arguments and signal that a premise or conclusion is present.
