SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Critical Thinking
27 Mar 2015
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Critical thinking is about having sufficient epistemic reasons for our beliefs and decisions. Whenever we have reasons for our beliefs, we can formulate them into an argument. Doing this makes it easier to tell whether our reasons are sufficient. In this chapter, we will study some methods for organizing our reasons into an argument and then telling whether they are sufficient. An argument is a set of statement one of which (the conclusion) is taken to be supported by the remaining statements (the premises) First, break it down into all of its assertions. For the food was cold, and the service was slow and the tables were dirty : the restaurant was terrible, the food was cold, the service was slow, the tables were dirty. The word for was left out since its not really part of the assertion, well come back to his later. I analyzed the conjunction into its conjuncts, always do that.
