HLTH3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Critical Thinking, Palliative Care, Primum Non Nocere
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Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully co applying, analysing and synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered fro observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication as a guide to b. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, g breadth and fairness. Lving in ethics fully conceptualising red from, or generated by de to belief and action scend subject matter nce, good reasons, depth, Claims - are conclusions which have to be established e. g. "tomatoes are fruit) Grounds - are facts or evidence which provide a foundation for a claim e. g. "fruits are plant tissues which are developed by the plants ovaries" Warrants - connect the grounds to the claims e. g. "tomatoes are developed from a plants ovaries" Backing - is a reference to an authority which provides further justification for th e. g. "wikipedia defines fruits as tissue developed from plant"s ovaries"
