AGRI 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Deductive Reasoning, Critical Thinking, Urban Legend

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Agriculture
• Course: AGRI 224
• Professor: Aresenault

Document Summary

The objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement. Making sure that you have good reasons for your beliefs. Good reason means belief is probable or not certain. Rational people want their beliefs to be true. An argument is a set of statements that together comprise a reason for a further statement. A good argument has premises that make the conclusion likely to be true. If the premises have nothing to do with the conclusion it"s a bad argument. If a premise means the argument must be true, it is a deductive argument. If premises are true and conclusion can still be false is an ampliative argument. Deductive - characterized by or based on the interference of particular instances from a general law. Human can reason + bill is a human = bill can reason. Inductive - characterized by the inference of general laws from a particular instances.