Study Guides for PHIL145 at University of Waterloo

PHIL 145: Critical Thinking the course is called "Critical Thinking" or "informal logic" or "argumentation theory" many teachers favour a fallacies based approach. A fallacy is a plausible-seeming but mistaken pattern ...

24/02/14 Week 7 Representation and Reasoning Errors  Unsuccessful reasoning can be caused by problems at each step in the reasoning process E.g. pendulums Our diagram/equations may misrepresent features of actual clock p...

24/02/14 Week 7 Representation and Reasoning Errors  Unsuccessful reasoning can be caused by problems at each step in the reasoning process E.g. pendulums Our diagram/equations may misrepresent features of actual clock p...

Review Midterm Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:04 PM Chapter 1 Assert - to present some claim that may or may not be true Argument - set of statements that are presented as true and that have a very important internal rela...