SSH 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Funding Bias, Leading Edge, Eminem
22 Mar 2018
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2:08 pm: critical thinking is reasonable thinking (in part) because it requires us to have good reasons for our conclusions, reasons are good only when (i) they support our conclusions and (ii) they are acceptable. In this chapter, we will consider when our reasons for believing are acceptable. When evidence conflicts: two bits of evidence are in direct conflict when one indicates that something is true and the other indicates that it is false. It conflicts with evidence from a known reliable source; It directly conflicts with what we already have good reason to believe: one source of evidence that has low reliability should not be believed or be able to override any other evidence. When evidence conflicts: two bits of evidence are in indirect conflict when one indicates that the other is not acceptable. If the first is stronger than the other, then the first undermines the second: undermined evidence is not acceptable, ex.
