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

UNDERSTANDING THE LINKS BETWEEN CLAIMS 47 Definitions are often crucial in reasoning. While many words that we use are 'obvious' ...

48 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING also of value judgment so as to learn better how to make a go ...

UNDERSTANDING THE LINKS BETWEEN CLAIMS 49 0^0 Y © Let us consider another example: I know that Australia has no laws that forbid ...

50 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING that country do not object to any religious practices, then f ...

UNDERSTANDING THE LINKS BETWEEN CLAIMS 51 the sweeping generalisation. Often people will make a conclusion that is far too gener ...

52 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING (these claims, while not self-evident, are reasonably straigh ...

UNDERSTANDING THE LINKS BETWEEN CLAIMS 53 Review In this chapter we have explored, in considerable depth, how linking between cl ...

54 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING c. Why should we avoid using independent premises? d. What do ...

5 More Effective Reasoning I: Better Claims We have not yet discussed the question of how to reason more effectively. The analyt ...

56 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING be well formed, but they make claims about the world that our ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING I: BETTER CLAIMS 57 Cuba is a democracy). An American would probably regard Cuba as undemo- cratic in t ...

58 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING with the nation's colonial foundation, then Australians today ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING I: BETTER CLAIMS 59 Making claims also involves deciding between values and descriptions. We can think ...

60 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING e. I imagine that if another state or territory were to pass ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING I: BETTER CLAIMS 61 0,©.© ©*© © Claim 3 is being supported by an argument provided by 4, 5, and 6. Of c ...

62 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING way for reasoning to proceed if we did not make these assumpt ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING I: BETTER CLAIMS 63 author of the claim is convinced that it is well founded, if the author were to pro ...

64 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING e. The two main political parties are the Liberal Party of Au ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING I: BETTER CLAIMS 65 there is no 'source' to check up on. In claim c, the authority is that of someone w ...

66 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING © ©.0 + © V © Note that, in this example, we are not engaging ...