PHL 251 Critical Thinking Professor Khristian E. Kay Don’t Panic! Program Council The Academic Program Councils for each college oversee the design and development of all University of Phoenix curricula. Council members include full-time and practitioner faculty members who have extensive experience in this discipline. Teams of full-time and practitioner faculty content experts are assembled under the direction of these Councils to create specific courses within
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FOOD PEDDLERS: Stop them for our children’s sake DO you know exactly what your children are eating while they are at school? Most parents are careful of their children’s diet‚ at home and at school. Many children bring home-cooked meals to school while some buy them at the school canteen‚ which is monitored by the school authorities and the Health Ministry. School canteens have a menu and price list‚ and under a directive from the Education Ministry‚ sale of junk food is prohibited. However
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I was just browsing TED Talks and saw a video tilted “The best stats you’ve ever seen” by Hans Rosling and it just caught my attention. It became clear very quickly that this was a fantastic speech. I knew absolutely nothing before clicking on the video. I was just looking for something that would be interesting. The late Hans Rosling was born in Uppsala Sweden‚ on 27 July 1948 and dies on 7 February 2017 at the age of 68. He studied statistics‚ medicine and public health. He investigated an outbreak
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Women Can’t Have It All.” He also used the word “paleolithic” when he described the people who think that the man who takes six weeks of paid leave for new fathers is “acting like a women.” His logical fallacies can be also seen when he tries to make an argument or a point. His first logical fallacies was sentimental appeal. The way he used it was by describing a baby with “… ten fuzzy fingers and ten fuzzy toes and a tiny crescent-moon mouth…”(697). He used the baby description to get the attention
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just a few lines down‚ Abbey is using this manipulation as a set up for his argument that we should feel the same emotions towards the defense of our public lands. The author immediately loses merit with this false analogy‚ and the continuation of fallacies throughout the work serve only to prove his argument ineffective. Abbey goes on to name several large businesses and universities and charges them with “looting” these public lands‚ and compares their behavior to that of “gangsters.” His tone in
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sun rises. Therefore‚ the rooster causes the sun to rise. 2. Example: When the fuel light goes on in my car‚ I soon run out of gas. Therefore‚ the fuel light causes my car to run out of gas. 8. Circular Argument - See Begging the Question 9. Fallacy of
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use of those same concepts you studied in your mini conceptual analysis. Evaluate the use of them. Step Ten: Begin evaluating non-conceptual claims for their relevance‚ acceptability and sufficiency Step Eleven: Look for any informal logical fallacies in the passage Step Twelve: Examine and evaluate how well the author dealt with objections to their own arguments MACRO-EVALUATION OF ARGUMENT Step Thirteen: Evaluate the overall success of the argument Step Fourteen: Determine what you will
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A woman’s place in the workforce is more accepted now than it has ever been before. However‚ in the 1970s‚ many women were expected to work in the home and be a supportive and loving wife to their husbands. Judy Brady‚ a feminist writer and survivor of breast cancer‚ writes about her longing for someone to take care of her as she takes care of her husband. First delivered at a rally in San Francisco in 1971 to mark the fifty year anniversary of American Women’s Suffrage‚ Brady’s essay awakened the
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Thanks to Klout‚ says Lightman‚ “We don’t have to use the logical fallacy of deferring to authority. Just because someone’s from MIT doesn’t mean they know something up-to-date on a particular subject.” Instead‚ there’s now another option – to reward people based on demonstrated expertise: “Now we have a fair and objective way to see who gets a shot.” Lightman – who has an impressive Klout score of 81 out of 100 and is considered the #1 authority on topics such as the singularity and the future
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Freakonomics – Focal point. While watching the documentary on freakonomics‚ the topic that stood out to me the most was the baby names topic. It was made very clear that names were important and it determined how people perceived you. It was also made very clear that names do not guarantee you to be an absolute success or an absolute failure. A topic that stood out the most in the documentary was the “black” names. I would put this in quotation because this documentary did state that some names
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