PHIL 1290 Lecture Notes - Yasser Arafat, Malice Aforethought, Critical Thinking
24 Jan 2014
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Our emotions often need the guidance of reason. It is our feelings that motivate us to action, and without motivation our reasoning would never get off the ground: critical thinking is essential. Is critical thinking essential: we should proportion our acceptance of a statement according to the reasons in its favour, if the accident happened at 5:00 p. m. , it was john"s fault. Therefore, most of them are happy: false. Exercise 1-2: no statement, command, statement, no statement, question, no statement, exclamation, statement, statement. Exercise 1-3: no argument, no argument, no argument, no argument, no argument, argument. Conclusion: spiderman is a better superhero than superman: argument. Conclusion: whether our argument concerns public affairs or some other subject we must know some, if not all, of the facts about the subject on which we are to speak and argue: argument. Conclusion: if someone says something that offends me, i should have the right to stop that kind of speech: argument.
