Monday, November 20, 2006
Thinking for Yourself
Ch 6 Summary Eng 75 Opinions: what’s Believed?
Opinions are one of the few things that are based clearly on an individual personal ideas and thoughts. It’s what makes us different from one another. If everybody had the same opinions perhaps we would live in a much more peaceful world, but it would be so boring everybody would view everything in the same way not much would have been accomplished. Opinions can be formed in so many different ways and for different reasons. One way can be based on taste for example some people may like the way something taste while others may despise. Another example would be more of an educated opinion such as individual who studies a certain scientific procedure may come up with a theory of what going to happen or why it happen, which will most likely be different that what another scientist may think.
Ch 7 Summary Evaluations What’s Judged? Eng 75
If a snowball is coming at me at 30mph the likely of it hitting me is very high, and if I stand in this spot most likely it will hit me. I don’t know the snow ball will hit me for a fact but from what I evaluate from this situation, I don’t want to stand here to find out. As humans it is important that we can asses are situations even though we may have never experienced them before. This is are way of adapting to what’s going on around us, Similar to the example given at the beginning but in a factual sense, if a brick was thrown out the window and I know for a fact that it will eventually hit the ground and may cause injury to anything in its path. Some evaluations are given based on experience but it cannot be qualified on fact just because it may not happen 90% of the time.
Ch 8 Summary Viewpoints What’s the filter?
In Critical Thinking it is important to always understand what you are reading. This may sound obvious but there are times when one can read some thing but not fully understand its meaning. You must be able to understand the writer view point, what are they assuming, what do they want the readers to believe after they have read there work. Once you understand where the writer is coming from and what their focus is you can go on to form your own opinions and ideas. Now you can use critically thinking to look at all different aspects of the writing because you have first seen it in all angles.
Ch 9 Summary Argument What’s a good Argument?
If a statement is thrown out to you, you would not necessarily believe just because some one told you. It is important when arguing a topic or persuading one on your views, you are prepared with data, facts about the topic a strong underlining premise and make sure you believe in what you are saying. Also when giving your argument your premise must be true, and your conclusion should always support your premise. You want to be prepared when you have and argument, in that all your material has been well researched and you are prepared to fire back on any questions given to you on that topic.
Ch 10 Summary fallacies What’s a faulty Argument?
A faulty argument will be most prevalent with an individual who does not have a strong premise, facts or data to back up what they are saying, therefore when they are presenting there statement it will sound faulty and have a lot of unnecessary words or sentencing just to confuse the opponent or even the individual presenting there argument. You can always tell when a bad argument is being given simply at looking at two parts of there argument. The first part being there premise and there second part being there conclusion. You can ask yourself does the conclusion support the premise at all, or does the conclusion make sense given what the premise is saying. Also when an individual is a giving a faulty argument they may have misleading facts so it is also important to be aware of the facts and make sure they are the truth.
Ch 11 Summary Inductive Reasoning and Inductive Fallacies:
How Do I Reason from Evidence?
Inductive reasonning is important to have in argument because it allows you to be aware of patterns going on in a situation. Although this pattern may happen almost every time it is important to be able to distinguish it between facts. Inductive reasoning can help strengthen your argument because a lot of times it is taken almost as being factual so it is a good basis to have. Fallacies are what brings an argument down because it is pattern of reasoning witch is usually wrong. This because of the way the argument is structured witch is incorrect for one reason or another. It may be incorrect because the statements may be false or it may be incorrect simply because of where the premise and conclusions are setup.
Opinions are one of the few things that are based clearly on an individual personal ideas and thoughts. It’s what makes us different from one another. If everybody had the same opinions perhaps we would live in a much more peaceful world, but it would be so boring everybody would view everything in the same way not much would have been accomplished. Opinions can be formed in so many different ways and for different reasons. One way can be based on taste for example some people may like the way something taste while others may despise. Another example would be more of an educated opinion such as individual who studies a certain scientific procedure may come up with a theory of what going to happen or why it happen, which will most likely be different that what another scientist may think.
Ch 7 Summary Evaluations What’s Judged? Eng 75
If a snowball is coming at me at 30mph the likely of it hitting me is very high, and if I stand in this spot most likely it will hit me. I don’t know the snow ball will hit me for a fact but from what I evaluate from this situation, I don’t want to stand here to find out. As humans it is important that we can asses are situations even though we may have never experienced them before. This is are way of adapting to what’s going on around us, Similar to the example given at the beginning but in a factual sense, if a brick was thrown out the window and I know for a fact that it will eventually hit the ground and may cause injury to anything in its path. Some evaluations are given based on experience but it cannot be qualified on fact just because it may not happen 90% of the time.
Ch 8 Summary Viewpoints What’s the filter?
In Critical Thinking it is important to always understand what you are reading. This may sound obvious but there are times when one can read some thing but not fully understand its meaning. You must be able to understand the writer view point, what are they assuming, what do they want the readers to believe after they have read there work. Once you understand where the writer is coming from and what their focus is you can go on to form your own opinions and ideas. Now you can use critically thinking to look at all different aspects of the writing because you have first seen it in all angles.
Ch 9 Summary Argument What’s a good Argument?
If a statement is thrown out to you, you would not necessarily believe just because some one told you. It is important when arguing a topic or persuading one on your views, you are prepared with data, facts about the topic a strong underlining premise and make sure you believe in what you are saying. Also when giving your argument your premise must be true, and your conclusion should always support your premise. You want to be prepared when you have and argument, in that all your material has been well researched and you are prepared to fire back on any questions given to you on that topic.
Ch 10 Summary fallacies What’s a faulty Argument?
A faulty argument will be most prevalent with an individual who does not have a strong premise, facts or data to back up what they are saying, therefore when they are presenting there statement it will sound faulty and have a lot of unnecessary words or sentencing just to confuse the opponent or even the individual presenting there argument. You can always tell when a bad argument is being given simply at looking at two parts of there argument. The first part being there premise and there second part being there conclusion. You can ask yourself does the conclusion support the premise at all, or does the conclusion make sense given what the premise is saying. Also when an individual is a giving a faulty argument they may have misleading facts so it is also important to be aware of the facts and make sure they are the truth.
Ch 11 Summary Inductive Reasoning and Inductive Fallacies:
How Do I Reason from Evidence?
Inductive reasonning is important to have in argument because it allows you to be aware of patterns going on in a situation. Although this pattern may happen almost every time it is important to be able to distinguish it between facts. Inductive reasoning can help strengthen your argument because a lot of times it is taken almost as being factual so it is a good basis to have. Fallacies are what brings an argument down because it is pattern of reasoning witch is usually wrong. This because of the way the argument is structured witch is incorrect for one reason or another. It may be incorrect because the statements may be false or it may be incorrect simply because of where the premise and conclusions are setup.
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