PHILOS 2CT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Critical Thinking
8 Feb 2016
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The quality of your beliefs is the fundamental concern of critical thinking. Thinking isn"t about what you think but how you think it. Critical thinking focuses on whether something is worth believing, not the causes of your. Critical thinking: the systematic evaluation or formulation of beliefs or statements beliefs by rational standards. Systematic because it involves distinct procedures and methods. Entails evaluation and formation because it"s used both to assess existing beliefs. Cognitive biases are errors of reasoning which humans make all the time, some are nearly and to devise new ones universal. I. e. we judge facts differently depending on how they"re phrased. I. e. we judge facts differently depending on how they"re phrased i. e. reacting differently when you hear a company was able to save 300 jobs (out of 1000) as opposed to hearing that the company was laying off. We also tend to overestimate how common dramatic events are and underestimate how common boring events are.
