Thinking Skills: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

4.1 Inference 135 However, Doc 4 also reveals that the small reduction in claims generally contrasts with a massive increase in ...

136 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking photograph was conclusive evidence that a crime was being committed. On the other hand ther ...

4.2 Explanation 137 4.2 Explanation In this chapter we return to an important concept that was introduced in Chapter 2.8, namely ...

138 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking Suggesting explanations: plausibility In the previous example the explanation is grounded o ...

4.2 Explanation 139 Don’t jump to conclusions You saw both in the previous chapter and in Chapter 2.10 that some of the worst re ...

140 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking Category of claim 2000/1 2004/5 2007/8 Change Clinical 10,890 8872 down 2018 Work related 9 ...

4.2 Explanation 141 can turn out to be factually untrue, thus ruling it out. Here is another interesting example. The English wo ...

142 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking Summary • Explanations differ from arguments, despite resemblances. • There may be many ...

4.2 Explanation 143 die. Leaving a climber to his fate, just to get to the summit of a mountain, was unthinkable in Hillary’s da ...

144 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking 4.3 Evidence Practically anything can be evidence: a footprint, a bloodstain, a written or ...

4.3 Evidence 145 hand may also be telling the truth about what she was told, but the receptionist may not be telling the truth a ...

146 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking Discuss how strong this evidence is. On the charge of assault, as described, would you say ...

4.3 Evidence 147 guilty as charged. Because of that, C would be a strange inference to make. She is no more likely to be innocen ...

148 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking going on does not mean she actively took part in it. Besides, his identification of Amelia ...

4.3 Evidence 149 previous day. He couldn’t be sure of the time. The Sunday papers had printed the story of White’s arrest, with ...

150 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking 4.4 Credibility Whilst we are often unable to say with confidence whether or not a claim is ...

4.4 Credibility 151 guideline, but it is no more than that. Cast your mind back to the eyewitness, Mr Choudhury, in the previous ...

152 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking credibility. A newspaper that has known political affiliations – as have many if not most n ...

4.4 Credibility 153 known that they had conferred, that would actually detract from their credibility, for it would have to be e ...

154 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking PARTYTIME STAR ACCUSED OF STEALING SONG by Jan Ewbank, Arts and media correspondent The sup ...