PHIL 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Co-Premise, Critical Thinking, Forensic Science
1 Apr 2016
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Provide you with tools to efectively process the low of information from papers, books, lectures, tv, the internet, enabling you to. Igure out how information can enrich our intellectual lives and help us manage practical afairs. Organize material to write papers try to persuade others to share your beliefs. Defend your words and actions against others recognize that some internet postings are nonsense. Igure out movies and stories about e. g. crime investigation. Recognizing and evaluating arguments: judging whether evidence supports a conclusion. Understanding and analyzing the meaning of information. Putting information together in a coherent way. Judging what information is relevant to a particular issue and whether it is evidence for the truth of an assertion. To understand meanings we need to pay attention to the circumstances or context in which words are written or spoken. Not all writing and speech is concerned with conveying information. Some writing and speech has mainly expressive content.
