Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing, 2nd Ed

SMART THINKING 7 choose a matter that is personal and emotional since these are often best analysed in different ways. Then star ...

8 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Moreover, as the neo-punk band Bad Religion sing, there is an ...

2 Claims: The Key Elements of Reasoning This chapter begins our in-depth exploration of how to use reasoning more effectively in ...

10 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Understanding language A basic look at language Every time we ...

CLAIMS: THE KEY ELEMENTS OF REASONING 11 assumptions about the meanings of words and ideas that lie behind it, and other texts t ...

12 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Although these statements differ in what they say, each is a ...

CLAIMS: THE KEY ELEMENTS OF REASONING 13 Is the world round or flat? The world is round. The world is flat. The first statement ...

14 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING How do we identify the claims? In the first sentence, there i ...

CLAIMS: THE KEY ELEMENTS OF REASONING 15 not become a republic' also makes this connection, although the meaning of that claim i ...

16 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING words, and not that Hussein was such a person. The claim 'Sad ...

CLAIMS: THE KEY ELEMENTS OF REASONING 17 case, is determined by the different value of'all', 'some', and 'few'. Scope is not jus ...

18 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING paper to save trees' expresses a value judgment ('it is good ...

CLAIMS: THE KEY ELEMENTS OF REASONING 19 would be strengthened if Australia declared its final independence from its European or ...

20 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Exercise 2.7 Make up four short examples of reasoning using t ...

CLAIMS: THE KEY ELEMENTS OF REASONING 21 with global warming [c] because previous governments were blind to the con- sequences o ...

22 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Review Words combine to form statements, which in turn combin ...

CLAIMS: THE KEY ELEMENTS OF REASONING 23 context descriptive claim exclamation explanation internal connection order premise pur ...

24 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING 2 There is considerable philosophical argument concerning the ...

3 Linking: The Key Process in Reasoning Claims are the basic material of reasoning, but they must be linked together if we are t ...

26 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Links between claims Evidence of the linking process We can d ...