Media, Information and Technoculture 1050A/B Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 1050A/B
• Professor: Paul Benedetti

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Claims and reasons: a statement (claim) is an assertion that something is or is not the case (things that are either true or false) *argument is a proposition supported by 1 or more premises leading to a conclusion: sometimes the conclusion is clear (titles of work), but sometimes it is not (implicit) Lecture notes: (cid:862)criti(cid:272)al(cid:863) to discern, to decide, to judge (not in a negative sense) Cognition error type 1: belie(cid:448)i(cid:374)g that so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g is (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)ted (cid:449)he(cid:374) it"s (cid:374)ot (seei(cid:374)g a patter(cid:374) (cid:449)he(cid:374) there is none, assuming a rustle in the bushes is a predator and not the wind. Cognition error type 2: not recognizing a real pattern when there is one, cost of a type 2 error is high. 3 things that could undermine us: attention, perception, memory. What is an argument: arguments try to persuade us to accept a belief.