SOCI 3680 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Daniel Kahneman, Factcheck.Org, Google Scholar
23 Sep 2017
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Strong critical thinkers use their knowledge and skills to assess the credibility of the source and the plausibility of the claim itself. The term argument is the combination of a claim plus the reason or reasons given to support. The question that comes to mind for critical thinkers when they hear a claim made but no. Memories are vulnerable to influence and distortion because of our prior beliefs, When we do not know if a claim is true or false, and if we cannot independently evaluate it, The issue of trust, and in particular, trust of authorities, is connected to our maturation. Levels of thinking and knowledge: (1) touchers to touch is to know. Knowledge is nothing but direct personal experience. (2) trusters truth is knowable. There are no absolutes. (6) truth-seekers some claims are true and some are not; some evaluations or approaches are not as good as others.
