{"id":1802,"date":"2017-01-18T00:11:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T05:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2017-01-18T00:11:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T05:11:57","slug":"jeanette-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2017\/01\/18\/jeanette-lam\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeanette Lam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In chapter 3 of Vaughn&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Power of Critical Thinking<\/em>, he discusses the differences between deductive and inductive arguments and how to judge the validity of them. He goes through 4 steps individuals must evaluate in order to fully understand an argument. The steps include asking oneself questions such as &#8220;is it the case that if the premises are true the conclusion<em> must<\/em> be true?&#8221; and &#8220;is the the argument intended to offer conclusive or probable support for its conclusion but\u00a0<em>fails\u00a0<\/em>to do so?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vaughn further emphasizes the importance of such a step process by shedding light on the fact that public figures often promote mystifying information and consumers blindly swallow it. As a journalism student,\u00a0I believe Vaughn&#8217;s ideals and practices are applicable and practical to all situations. Individuals must take the time to slow down, ask questions, and evaluate texts\/situations before jumping to conclusions. After all, the conclusion may not even be true if they haven&#8217;t evaluated the premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In chapter 3 of Vaughn&#8217;s\u00a0Power of Critical Thinking, he discusses the differences between deductive and inductive arguments and how to judge the validity of them. He goes through 4 steps individuals must evaluate in order to fully understand an argument. The steps include asking oneself questions such as &#8220;is it the case that if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}