Becoming a Critical Thinker - Answers - Remembering
- Understanding
- Applying
- Analyzing
- Evaluating
- Creating
Check Your Attitudes - Answers - Be willing to find various points of view
- Understand before criticizing
- Be willing to be uncertain
Check for Logic - Answers Logic is a branch of philosophy that seeks to distinguish between valid and
invalid reasoning. Students of logic look at a series of related sentences to make sure that they are clear,
consistent, and coherent.
Define key terms - Answers A term is a word or phrase that refers to a clearly defined concept. Terms
with several different meanings are ambiguous—fuzzy, vague, and unclear. One common goal of critical
thinking is to remove ambiguous terms or define them clearly.
- Look or listen for words that are new to you.
- Be alert for words or phrases that are frequently repeated especially in prominent places in a text or in
a speech, such as an overview, introduction, summary, or conclusion.
- When reading, check the index for words or phrases that have many page references.
Look for assertions - Answers A speaker or writer's key terms occur in a larger context called an
assertion. An assertion is a complete sentence that contains one or more key terms. The purpose of an
assertion is to define a term or to state relationships between terms. These relationships are the
essence of what we mean by the term knowledge.
Look for arguments - Answers Most of us think of an argument as the process of disagreement or
conflict. For specialists in logic, this term has a different meaning. For them, an argument is a series of
related assertions.
There are two major types of reasoning used in building arguments—deductive and inductive.
Look for unstated assumptions - Answers In many cases, assumptions are unstated and offered without
evidence.
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