Critical Thinking Critical thinking is that mode of thinking - about any subject, content, or problem - in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them. A well cultivated critical thinker: * Will frame different questions and predicts the problems in the long run process, formulating them clearly and precisely; * collects and analyze relevant information, using
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the introduction and speech there are examples of fallacies, rhetorical devices, and bias. The first example of bias is delivered when introducing Kane. The campaigner introducing Kane refers to “the evil domination of Boss Jim Gettys,” this clearly indicates bias in favor of Kane, and also is an example of the ad hominem fallacy by attacking Jim Gettys rather than his arguments. The campaigner also uses the scare tactics and the false dilemma fallacy when he states “There is only one man who can rid
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being made? (at least 3 + assumptions) 6. Is the language that is being used loaded or slanted in any way? (at least 3 +) 7. Are there any logical fallacies (pp. 394-397) in the argument? (you need to find at least 6+ fallacies). You need to identify which sentences in the story are fallacies and specify which fallacy (or fallacies) they violate. For example: “If we cut down on the number of legacy admissions, what would happen to the college budget? We might not even be able to keep
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CONSTRUCTIVE SPEECH (NEGATIVE-PRACTICABILITY) Ladies and Gentlemen, Good afternoon. Lovely to see you all here today. Let me begin by defining what Political dynasty is according to the section 3 of the senate bill no. 2649 since it is stated in the constitution itself to have a law that clearly define this. "Political Dynasty" - shall exist when a person who is the spouse of an incumbent elective official or relative within the second civil degree of consanguinity or affinity of an incumbent
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The Violence Interrupters The film “The Interrupters” by Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz is based on a group of individuals that are part of Ceasefire, a Chicago anti-violence program. Gary Slutkin, the founder of Ceasefire, believes that the spread of violence is very similar to the spread of disease, and so he believes that the treatment should be analogous. In order to stop the infection, one must go after the most infected, the source. The main goal of the violence interrupters is to simply
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this stereotype could be: Michael Jordan was a talented basketball player Jerry Rice was one of the best wide receivers in the NFL Joe is African American, therefore, he must be a talented athlete The fallacy we see in this argument is hasty generalization. Our text states that the “fallacy of hasty generalization is committed when the conclusion is based on insufficient information: a generalization is made too quickly” (Mosser, 2011, p. 4.2). The assumption that Joe is a talented athlete just
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the author’s methods? • His arguments: examples, historical justifications, deductive reasoning, statistics, and so on. – What are your methods (for this exam)? • The weakness in his arguments: Find contradictions, inconsistencies, logical fallacies, false assumptions, and so on. – Statistics are misleading Purpose, Method, and Persona • Persona: – What is the author’s persona? • Is he comical, serious, academic, angry? – What is your persona (for this exam) • Formal and doubtful
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Illogical Reasoning in Greenberg’s Claim The article “Why colleges should ditch honor codes” on The Washington Post discusses how honor codes encourage rather than stifle cheating. The author, Susan Greenberg, argues that the honor code fails because it relies on students reporting their peers when witnessing a violation of the rules. Students are hesitant to report their peers because they gain nothing from it. Greenberg also states that the honor code is ineffective and have difficult guidelines
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audience, attacking his opponent by using various fallacies of incorrect argument. First he begins with attacking “boss Jim W. Getty and his political machine” one example or another, where he is saying “There is only one man who can rid the politics of this State of the evil domination of Boss Jim Getty’s.” The tactics that are used here are for the reason of making himself to look better and stronger, in his point of views and political plan. This fallacy is called scapegoating, when you putting the
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5. Paragraph 5 mainly discusses the use of land by farmlands which are expanding. The author managed to make the stand in this paragraph by committing a fallacy. (a) Which statement would you consider as fallacious? (b) What category of fallacy does the statement in (a) fall into? Task 2: Identify the type of fallacy committed for each of the below. 1. More and more young people are attending high schools and colleges today than ever before. Yet there is more juvenile
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