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Critical Thinking Core Concepts

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Author:Miller, Connelly; Longview Community College
Description: From the Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project, an essay whose contents include: Short history of Logic; Symbolic (or Formal) Logic vs Informal Logic (or Critical Thinking); What is the point of studying Critical Thinking?; Introducing logical vocabulary; Peddlers and Consumers of Statements; Things Peddlers Do; Political and Philosophical Peddlers; Arguments; Inference Indicators; The Principle of Charitable Interpretation; Validity; Soundness; Valid argument forms; Using Truth Tables to discover Validity; Filling in Implicit Premises; Roles statements play in arguments; Establishing the truth of premises: Conceptual vs. Empirical Premises; Understanding more complicated Passages; Using and Criticizing Analogies in premises; Example Course Exercise: Analogies used in debates over Moral issues.
Levels: High School (9-12), College
Languages: English
Math Topics: Logic/Foundations, Philosophy

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