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-1.1 What Is Critical Thinking?
--1.1 What is Critical Thinking?
-1.2 Why Study Critical Thinking?
--1.2 Why Study Critical Thinking?
-Quiz 1
-Critical Thinking: Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes
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-2.1 Claims
-2.2 Issues
-2.3 Arguments
-2.4 Identifying Premise and Conclusion
--2.4 Identifying Premise and Conclusion
-2.5 What Arguments Are Not
-Quiz 2
-3.1 Two Kinds of Arguments
-3.2 Distinguishing Deductive and Inductive Arguments
--3.2 Distinguishing Deductive and Inductive Arguments
-3.3 Validity and Soundness of Deductive Arguments
--3.3 Validity and Soundness of Deductive Arguments
-3.4 Strength of Inductive Arguments
--3.4 Strength of Inductive Arguments
-3.5 Techniques for Understanding Arguments
--3.5 Techniques for Understanding Arguments
-Quiz 3
-4.1 Clarity, Precision, Accuracy, and Relevance
--4.1 Clarity, Precision, Accuracy, and Relevance
-4.2 Consistency, Logical Correctness, Completeness, and Fairness
--4.2 Consistency, Logical Correctness, Completeness, and Fairness
-4.3 Vagueness
-4.4 Ambiguity
-4.5 Generality
-4.6 Defining Terms
-Quiz 4
-5.1 Tasks before Writing
-5.2 Writing Argumentative Essays
--5.2 Writing Argumentative Essays
-5.3 Essay Types to Avoid
-Quiz 5
-6.1 A Few Words on Credibility
--6.1 A Few Words on Credibility
-6.2 Credibility of the Claim
--6.2.1 Credibility of the Direct Observation
--6.2.2 Credibility of Background Information
-6.3 Credibility of the source
--6.3 Credibility of the source
-Quiz 6
-7.1 What Is Rhetoric Device and Why Use Rhetoric?
--7.1 What Is Rhetoric Device and Why Use Rhetoric?
-7.2 Euphemisms and Dysphemisms
--7.2 Euphemisms and Dysphemisms
-7.3 Weaslers, Downplayers, Hyperbole
--7.3 Weaslers, Downplayers, Hyperbole
-7.4 Stereotypes
-7.5 Innuendo, Loaded Questions, Ridicule and Sarcasm
--7.5 Innuendo, Loaded Questions, Ridicule and Sarcasm
-7.6 Rhetorical Definitions and Rhetorical Explanations; Rhetorical Analogies
--7.6 Rhetorical Definitions and Rhetorical Explanations; Rhetorical Analogies
-7.7 Misleading Comparisons
-7.8 Proof Surrogates; Repetition
--7.8 Proof Surrogates; Repetition
-Quiz 7
-8.1 Argument from outrage, Argument from Pity, Argument from Envy
--8.1 Argument from outrage, Argument from Pity, Argument from Envy
-8.2 Scare Tactics, Apple Polishing
--8.2 Scare Tactics, Apple Polishing
-8.3 Guilt Trip, Wishful Thinking, Rationalizing
--8.3 Guilt Trip, Wishful Thinking, Rationalizing
-8.4 Groupthink Fallacy, Nationalism, Peer Pressure
--8.4 Groupthink Fallacy, Nationalism, Peer Pressure
-8.5 Appeal to Popularity, Appeal to Common Practice, Appeal to Tradition
--8.5 Appeal to Popularity, Appeal to Common Practice, Appeal to Tradition
-8.6 Red Herring, Two Wrongs Make a Right
--8.6 Red Herring, Two Wrongs Make a Right
-Quiz 8
-9.1 The Ad Hominem Fallacy
--9.1.1 Personal Attack Ad Hominem
--9.1.2 The Inconsistency, Circumstantial, Poisoning the Well, Positive Ad Hominem Fallacy
-9.2 The Genetic Fallacy, Straw Man
--9.2 The Genetic Fallacy, Straw Man
-9.3 False Dilemma, Argument from Analogy
--9.3 False Dilemma & Weak Analogy
-9.4 The Perfectionist Fallacy, The Line-Drawing Fallacy, Slippery Slope
--9.4 The Perfectionist Fallacy, The Line-Drawing Fallacy, Slippery Slope
-9.5 Misplacing the Burden of Proof, Begging the Question
--9.5 Misplacing the Burden of Proof, Begging the Question
-Quiz 9
-10.1 Two Kinds of Explanations
--10.1 Two Kinds of Explanations
-10.2 Explanatory Adequacy
-10.3 Forming Hypotheses
--10.3.1-Method of Difference & Method of Agreement
--10.3.2-Causal Mechanisms and Background Knowledge
-10.4 Mistakes in Causal Reasoning
--10.4 Mistakes in Causal Reasoning
-Quiz 10
