Meaning and Critical Thinking
Provides learners with the means to improve their thinking skills through application of inductive & deductive thinking, recognition of logical fallacies, and construction of syllogisms. Explores philosophical concepts of truth, meaning, and free will.
Questions
Truth lies at the intersection of
- faith and reason
- left and right hemispheres of the brain
- natural and social sciences
- progressives and conservatives
At the present time, human knowledge is doubling about every?
- 25 years
- 10 years
- year
- 12 hours
A good way to learn the truth about almost any topic, is to use a scientific poll of public opinion.
- True
- False
The one thing that cannot be taken from a human being is?
- Ability to make sense of their experiences
- Suffering
- Freedom of choice
- None of the above
Reality (meaning or Tao) is to be found in the tension between order and chaos, between the left and right hemispheres.
- True
- False
The brain constrains the mind and society constrains the brain
- True
- False
Free will is the power to act without constraint of necessity or fate.
- True
- False
Human development is dependent in large part on replacing an external locus of control with an internal one.
- True
- False
To improve our critical thinking competences we must begin with?
- clear statement of purpose vis-a-vis goals and objectives
- an examination of our underlying assumptions
- both of the above
- neither of the above
Critical thinking is focused on what to believe and do.
- True
- False
Straw men, ad hominem, and guilt by association are examples of:
- syllogisms
- intuitive
- logical statements
- logical fallacies