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

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING II: BETTER LINKS 87 necessary claims in the chain. Equally, we must not confuse claims that support ano ...

88 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING h. What role does context (and especially audience) play in e ...

7 What Kinds of Reasoning are There? We have now finished with our detailed look at the analytical structure approach. This chap ...

90 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING stage. It is often claimed that deduction is a form of reason ...

WHAT KINDS OF REASONING ARE THERE? 91 of all proceeds from the assumption that the premises are absolutely correct. If they are, ...

92 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING making some prediction or estimate of what the most likely co ...

WHAT KINDS OF REASONING ARE THERE? 93 else will also occur. It is, perhaps, the philosopher's version of Newton's third law of t ...

94 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Causal reasoning Reasoning from cause is very common and we a ...

WHAT KINDS OF REASONING ARE THERE? 95 Jones and Wilson have both been sacked by the company that used to employ them. Jones, a m ...

96 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING seeks to show how one event leads to another, reasoning from ...

WHAT KINDS OF REASONING ARE THERE? 97 When we are confident about our generalisations, and a specific case does fit a particular ...

98 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING example, I had 'unluckily' chosen a sample of 1000 Australian ...

WHAT KINDS OF REASONING ARE THERE? 99 While generalised and specific reasoning both depend on classifications of individual case ...

100 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING (that is, as a list of claims and a diagram). Choose issues ...

WHAT KINDS OF REASONING ARE THERE? 101 generalisation, reasoning from induction propositional logic specific cases, reasoning fr ...

8 Research, Reasoning, and Analysis Advice on research usually covers 'physical' issues such as finding books, conducting experi ...

RESEARCH, REASONING, AND ANALYSIS 103 Information as it relates to how we are using it. 3 We will examine some general issues t ...

104 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING a connection between more than one idea. What we know is bes ...

RESEARCH, REASONING, AND ANALYSIS 105 reasoning, our search for information about that topic, and the construction of an argumen ...

106 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING 'what' we will find so much as the way that information and ...