C168 Study Guide Exam Questions
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Uncritical Persons - -Socially conditioned beliefs
Personal beliefs often grounded in prejudice
Motivated by irrationality, personal vanity, intellectual arrogance
Prone to emotional counter-attacks when thinking is questioned
See themselves as "good" and opponents as "evil"
-bias - -uncritical preference for some particular point of view
-fallacy - -a false or mistaken error in reasoning
-purposes - -the goal of reasoning
-Questions - -directs the reasoning or researching process
-assumptions - -beliefs that are taken for granted
-implications - -possible results or effects that follows reasoning
-information - -facts provided or learned about something or someone.
-concepts - -categorizing information
-inferences - -A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
-point of view - -the perspective from which a story is told
-standards of reasoning - -The way we assess our reasoning to determine
how well we are reasoning
-clarity - -clearness in thought or expression
-accuracy - -how things actually are
-precise - -Clearly expressed; exact; accurate in every detail
-relevance - -the relation of something to the matter at hand
-depth - -deep thinking that addresses the complexities and details
-breadth - -issues from all relevant viewpoints
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