BELIEF

STATEMENT

EXPLANATION

ARGUMENT

PREMISE

PREMISE INDICATORS

CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION INDICATORS

OBSTACLES to Critical Thinking

PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSTACLES

PHILOSIPHICAL OBSTACLES

SUBJECTIVE RELATIVISM

WORLDVIEW

SOCIAL RELATIVISM

PHILOSOPHICAL SKEPTICISM

2 KINDS OF ARGUMENTS

DEDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS

VALID

INDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS

SOUND ARGUMENT

COGNET ARGUMENT

IF

THEN

HYPOTHETICAL SYLLOGISM

DISJUNCTIVE SYLLOGISM

VALID ARGUMENT FORMS

INVALID ARGUMENT FORMS

AFFIRMING THE ANTECEDENT

DENYING THE CONSEQUENT

AFFIRMING THE CONSEQUENT

DENYING THE ANTECEDENT

FALLACIES

2 KINDS OF FALLACIES

IRRELEVANT PREMISES

GENETIC FALLACY

COMPOSITION

DEVISION

APPEAL TO THE PERSON

EQUIVOCATION

APPEAL TO POPULARITY

APPEAL TO TRADITION

APPEAL TO IGNORANCE

APPEAL TO EMOTION

RED HERRING

STRAW MAN

TWO WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT

FALACIES

FALLACIES WITH UNACCEPTABLE PREMISES

BEGGING THE QUESTION

FALSE DILEMMA

SLIPPERY SLOPE

HASTY GENERALIZATION

FAULTY ANALOGY

RHETORICAL MOVES

INNUENDO

EUPHEMISM

STEREOTYPING

RIDICULE

EXPERT

RELY ON BOGUS EXPERT OPINION

IMPAIRMENT

EXPECTATIONS

QUESTIONS FOR DEFENSE (against news casts etc)

NARCISSISM