Nosich’s “The Elements of Reasoning” and Elder’s “The Standards for Thinking” both focus on various techniques people can adopt to become better critical thinkers. According to Nosich‚ two conditions must exist to be considered critical thinking: the thinking must be reflective and it must meet high standards. These two conditions lead us into the eights elements of reasoning presented in the readings. The first element focused on is “Purpose‚” which includes objectives‚ goals‚ your desired outcome
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Legal Reasoning is a reasonable reasoning before the decision had been made. Legal reasoning required us to consider the criteria beyond those imposed by the strict necessity of logic. It has followed certain criteria or rules which applied in practical reasoning. For an example‚ a judge has to give judgment by following the precedent case and Federal Constitution‚ legislators have to predict the impact of their laws before amendment whereby following the two-third majority of Parliament and lawyers
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Differentiating Reasoning Kayleen Watson CRT/205 Fredja Trujillo 01 Oct 13 Differentiating Reasoning The two articles I chose from Week 2 were Article One: Charter Schools Are Superior to Public Schools and Article Four: Social Networking Sites Cannot Be Blamed for Bullying. For this week in article one I believe that the author used inductive reasoning. Inductive Reasoning can be defined as broad generalizations from specific observations. So in inductive reasoning even if the
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Deductive reasoning Deductive reasoning happens when a researcher works from the more general information to the more specific. Sometimes this is called the “top-down” approach because the researcher starts at the top with a very broad spectrum of information and they work their way down to a specific conclusion. For instance‚ a researcher might begin with a theory about his or her topic of interest. From there‚ he or she would narrow that down into more specific hypotheses that can be tested. The
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Types of Reasoning Reasoning is the process of inferring conclusions from premises. The premises may be in the form of any of the various types of evidence; they may be stated as propositions; or they may be statements of conclusions reached through prior reasoning. Thus advocates use the premises they have previously established or asserted‚ and by a process of reasoning‚ they try to establish something new—a conclusion they want their audience to accept. If the audience perceives the premises
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Role Models an Ethical Decision Making Professional Ethics and Legal Liabilities Suzanna Taylor Task 1 When taking on a career where you are considered a public servant you also take on the responsibility of being held to a higher standard. I think that it is fair that a law enforcement officer is held to a higher standard than the other citizens. In public servant jobs you always have to be on your toes. I do think that police officers should be allowed to go to the bars
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Deductive Reasoning In order to fully understand deductive reasoning‚ there are certain points to be noted. First‚ what is the nature of deductive reasoning? Logical strength is defined as the property of an argument whose premises‚ if true provide support for its conclusion. Deductive and inductive arguments are also distinguished based on the point that logical strength is a matter of degree. This distinction makes it necessary to understand the nature of deductive reasoning. Therefore‚ deductive
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pornography. The arguer reports back an irrelevant thesis that the Senator is in favour of complete governmental censorship of books‚ magazines and films. 6. Challenge the fallacy. (4 Marks) Explain what is wrong with using this pattern of reasoning with reference to any violations of the 3 criteria for a good argument . State which criteria for a good argument the fallacy violates. Explain what it means to violate that criteria for a good argument (relevancy‚ sufficiency‚ acceptability)
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Lindsey Lane October 21‚ 2012 The Importance of Deductive Reasoning Critical Thinking Kevin White It is important to understand what is known prior to making a decision because the decision could be either wrong or right. Making decisions at times can be a hard thing to do. There are many pros and cons for decision making. In argument five To Cheat or Not to Cheat Jenna has a big decision to make. She has to decide whether or not she wants to continue her class by being honest or to
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Analyzing a News Article Using the Elements of Reasoning The following article http://abcnews.go.com/US/amber-alert-sharp-eyed-citizen-save-missing-girl/story?id=11807128&page=1 was about how a young girl was rescued from her kidnapper by an ordinary citizen. My purpose for choosing and reading this article was to find out how this occurred. As far as questions that are brought up by this article are how did this man know to stop this particular truck? How did he accomplish that? Why was the
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