Critical Thinking Definitions

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39. Referring to an expert, witness or recognised authority to support a claim.
Appeal to authority
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40. A form of argument that supports a prediction about the future with reference to the past.
Appeal to history
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39. A form of argument that attempts to support a conclusion by engaging the audience’s emotions rather than giving reasons.
Appeal to emotion
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39. A form of argument which justifies a conclusion by how much it is accepted.
Appeal to popularity
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39. A form of argument that supports a conclusion by saying it has always been done in this way.
Appeal to tradition
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38. A reference to something or someone in order to persuade an audience to accept a conclusion.
Appeal
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39. A flaw that attempts to justify one harmful thing on the basis of another different harmful thing.
‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’
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An attempt to justify an action on the basis that someone else is doing it.
Tu quoque
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38. A fault in the pattern of reasoning that weakens the support given to the conclusion of an argument.
Flaw
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Evidence based on second-hand information from another source, who may have interpreted it.
Hearsay
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23. When evidence or an argument contains two claims which cannot both be correct at the same time.
Inconsistency
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38. Reasoning that assumes a casual connection without good reason, oversimplifies casual relationships or confuses cause and effect.
Hearsay
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40. A form of argument that supports a prediction about the future with reference to the past.

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Appeal to history

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39. A form of argument that attempts to support a conclusion by engaging the audience’s emotions rather than giving reasons.

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39. A form of argument which justifies a conclusion by how much it is accepted.

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39. A form of argument that supports a conclusion by saying it has always been done in this way.

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