Thinking Skills: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

4.7 Introducing longer arguments 175 when a gun is fired by a police officer it is with the intent to kill or wound someone, whe ...

176 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking 2 Find an example of an argument based on analogy – or write one yourself. Critically ex ...

4.8 Applying analysis skills 177 one as the last word, it would be the second, the recommendation to confiscate income, since th ...

178 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking talent and comes only indirectly from crime, not directly like the money from fraud or bank ...

4.8 Applying analysis skills 179 that crime shouldn’t pay, and provides two examples of unacceptable income that nobody could re ...

180 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking Try building up a more detailed map of the argument ‘Time to get tough’, showing how, in yo ...

4.8 Applying analysis skills 181 Introduction Principle of no profit But ... Many criminals are becoming celebrities just becaus ...

182 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking Using some of the methods discussed in this chapter, as well as those you studied in Chapte ...

4.9 Critical evaluation 183 In the last chapter you worked on mapping out the structure of two arguments: one with an accompanyi ...

184 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking Commentary The response does not sweep away the objections; and it doesn’t give any good re ...

4.9 Critical evaluation 185 his bestselling autobiography serialised in the newspapers or made into a successful film. The victi ...

186 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking seen, the argument is not necessarily as sound or as conclusive as it may at first seem: th ...

4.9 Critical evaluation 187 argument, you must decide. You will have the chance to do so in the end-of-chapter assignments. Be c ...

188 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking extends to others as well. For example, the strongest argument for banning smoking in publi ...

4.9 Critical evaluation 189 This is obviously nonsense. The difference between special diets or training techniques and the use ...

190 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking • A critical evaluation means deciding whether the claims and assumptions made in an argu ...

4.10 Responding with further argument 191 Responding with further argument 4.10 Evaluating an argument means deciding whether or ...

192 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking New lines of argument But further argument does not have to begin from a particular point o ...

4.10 Responding with further argument 193 The third piece also considers the consequences of allowing criminals to become role m ...

194 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking what he did to them. But equally it is not very just if someone has completed their sentenc ...