Critical Thinking Vocabulary
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| Question of Fact | show 🗑
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| show | Many possible answers based on subjective preferences
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| Question of Judgment | show 🗑
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| show | In analyzing causation, looking for a single shared factor.
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| Single Difference | show 🗑
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| show | In analyzing causation, looking for a pattern of variation between a possible cause and a possible effect.
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| Process of elimination | show 🗑
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| show | Taking into the mind information, that though memorized, we do not understand.
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| Activated Ignorance | show 🗑
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| show | Taking into the mind, and actively using information that is true and also, when understood insightfully, leads us by implication to more and more knowledge.
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| show | Intellectually unskilled thinkers
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| Skilled Manipulators | show 🗑
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| Fair-Minded Critical Persons | show 🗑
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| show | Dismissing an argument by attacking the person who offers it rather than by refuting its reasoning.
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| appeal to authority | show 🗑
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| appeal to popularity | show 🗑
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| show | Asserting a conclusion that is assumed in the reasoning. The reason given to support the conclusion restates the conclusion.
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| either-or | show 🗑
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| faulty analogy | show 🗑
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| show | Inferring a general proposition about something based on too small a sample or an unrepresentative sample.
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| Red Herring | show 🗑
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| Search for perfect solution | show 🗑
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| Slippery Slope | show 🗑
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| Straw Man | show 🗑
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| Two wrongs make a right | show 🗑
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| Egocentric memory | show 🗑
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| show | Adopting an overly narrow point of view and thinking in absolutes
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| show | Feeling superior
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| Egocentric hypocrisy | show 🗑
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| show | Ignoring complexity and embracing simplicity that conforms to our existing views, values, and beliefs.
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| Egocentric blindness | show 🗑
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| show | Overgeneralizing so that immediate event, whether favorable or unfavorable, influences thinking.
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| Egocentric absurdity | show 🗑
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| show | The assumption that one's own social group is inherently and self-evidently superior to all others, and therefore all its actions are justified.
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| egocentricism | show 🗑
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| Forms of evidence | show 🗑
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| Quantitative data | show 🗑
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| show | Based on systematic observation of phenomena.
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| Critical consumer of information | show 🗑
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| show | Principles for correct human behavior acknowledged by reasonable people.
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| show | The science of collecting organizing, and analyzing quantitative data.
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| show | The average derived by adding up all the values and dividing the sum by the total number of values.
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| show | The average represented by the middle value in a series of values.
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| show | The value that appears most frequently in a series of values
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| show | A graph that plots the relationship between 2 or more variables by using connected data points.
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| Absolute number | show 🗑
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| Misinformation | show 🗑
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| Random sample | show 🗑
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| Statistical Range | show 🗑
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| show | The frequency with which each value in a series of values occurs.
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| Critical Thinking | show 🗑
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| show | Second-order thinking
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| Weak-sense thinking | show 🗑
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| Fair-mindedness | show 🗑
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| Intellectual empathy | show 🗑
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| Intellectual humility | show 🗑
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| Intellectual autonomy | show 🗑
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| show | represents the second stage of development of critical thinking
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| Feeling | show 🗑
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| show | AKA- The Parts of Thinking and Fundamental Structures of Thought.
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| Reasoning | show 🗑
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| Purpose | show 🗑
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| Assumption | show 🗑
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| Implications | show 🗑
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| show | Theories
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| show | Making inferences, based on assumptions.
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| show | Memorizing information without understanding it.
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| show | Mentally taking in and actively using false information.
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| 3 kinds of implications in any situation | show 🗑
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| Clarity | show 🗑
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| Precise | show 🗑
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| show | Recognizing when your thinking is irrational or flawed.
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| show | Engaging and challenging your own thinking.
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| Opinion | show 🗑
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| Transparency | show 🗑
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| show | A plausible alternative to why something happened.
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| Relative | show 🗑
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| show | where all ethical principles common to all humans can be found.
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| Deep learning | show 🗑
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| show | Does not produce lasting knowledge or comprehension.
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| When should a learner apply the Elements of Reasoning to the logic of a subject? | show 🗑
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| Elements of Reasoning | show 🗑
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| Standards of Thinking | show 🗑
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