SSH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Critical Thinking, False Premise

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 100
• Professor: David Hunter

Document Summary

Critical thinking is about having sufficient reasons for our beliefs and decisions. An argument is a set of statements one of which is a conclusion is stated to be supported by the remaining statements (premises. Conclusion is something the speakers wants you to belief. Premises state the reasons or evidence for accepting the conclusions. First, break it down into all of its assertions. For the food was cold, and the service was slow and the tables were dirty. a. 1. Note 1 : the for was left out. Note 2: list all the conjunction into its conjuncts. Note 3: never break down conditionals or disjunctions. See if the author is trying to get you to believe something. You have to have 2 assertions to make it an argument. Always take the pronoun out (she, it , that) If there are no indicators place one and see which makes more sense.