Fallacies What are assumptions? How do you think assumptions might interfere with critical thinking? What might you do to avoid making assumptions in your thinking? * An assumption is something we take for granted. We assume our beliefs to be true and use them to interpret the world about us. We humans naturally and regularly use our beliefs as assumptions and make inferences based on those assumptions. We must do so to make sense of where we are‚ what we are about‚ and what is happening
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Name _Jordan Peterson___________ Critical Thinking Week 2 Homework (50 pts) 1. (12 pts.) Label each definition with the appropriate name of the fallacy from the following list. (Note there will be two fallacy names that are not used.) Ad hominem/attacking the person | Ad ignorantiam/appeal to ignorance | Ad populum/appeal to the people | Ad misercordiam/appeal to pity | Begging the Question/Circular Reasoning | Equivocation | Red Herring | Straw Man | A. Sliding from one
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Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement? The biggest and most important challenge I’ve ever had in my life was when I came to study a month ago to this country (United States). For me it is still a very big challenge why I am living alone with my aunt and sister and it is not the same confidence that you have with your parents‚ all my family stayed in Mexico why my
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New Topics for Critical Thinking Project Sustainable development becomes a challenge because we have conflicting needs. We want fresh‚ clean air to breathe but we also want to buy cars We want to conserve forests but we need trees to build houses We want to swim in clean waters but we need factories. Factories usually use water from rivers to power machinery or to cool down machinery How do we balance conflicting needs? What are the important steps that have to be undertaken to achieve the
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The Disparity Between Intellect and Character Melisse A. Powell Basic Critical Thinking Instructor Krista Bridgmon 3). How would you explain the fact that morally evil people can be highly educated in terms of ethics and religion? In other words‚ how do you account for the gap that sometime occurs between knowledge of ethics and being an ethical person? The difference between the knowledge of ethics and being an ethical person‚ is that ethical knowledge is knowledge that can be taught
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4. What do you feel is your most significant accomplishment? My most significant accomplishment is stepping out of my comfort zone freshman year and joining the Forensics team. I no longer have a fear of public speaking in front of people whom I don’t know. I have made tons of new friends and developed new opinions and views on certain aspects that affect our world. I have competed at state twice and been told by multiple people I always look happy and engaged watching other people’s pieces
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The most exciting thing I did this summer was when I visited Playland with my nieces‚ nephews‚ brother‚ and my big sister’s boy friend. I went on almost all the of the rides. The first ride that I rode was the Water Boat ride.That ride went so high I was scared to ride it because I’m afraid of heights‚ but my sister’s boy friend made me do it. Here are some more things I did during my summer vacation. I went to Brooklyn to spend time with my aunt at her house for a week. Some of the things I did
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college years. College 90 has given me a book load of memories to share and live from. I have learned many skills throughout this course and I am ready for 101! English 90 did not only refresh me of things I learned in high school but it has refined them. Using correct punctuation was an unclear problem I never could get a grasp on until English 90. Difficult tasks such as starting and ending my essays are a thing of the past. Now I know to brainstorm ideas and narrow them to a specific topic. Essays used
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Nanci Stanley 350 words. University of California. Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to over this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement? I woke up in the hospital‚ the room was stuffy and the air had a undertone of bleach. Beautiful framed pieces of art hang the wall. There were vases of flowers in the room. I look around‚ every surface was dustless. The nurses were unhurried‚ they moved with a serene
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111 27 January 2013 Audience Analysis The general audience I would like to target in this particular essay would have to be my fellow classmates‚ and instructor. What I feel I am expressing in this essay about “The American Culture” by Deborah Tannen will be in relation to any and all participating in this assignment as well as having read this particular article. Being Americans‚ we have all read this article‚ even if not by words. Just as we all live in the “argument culture” now‚ being America
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