[sspain20]

Why is it important to recognize fallcies in your own writing? How does this impact critical thinking?

[JudyKayTee]

What are your thoughts? If you post yours someone will come along to add their thoughts.

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[Communist]

Do you understand what fallacies are (particularly logical fallacies when it comes to scientific thought), and what critical thinking is? Investigate the meaning of each and you should be able to see the connection.

[TUT317]

Do you understand what fallacies are (particularly logical fallacies when it comes to scientific thought), and what critical thinking is? Investigate the meaning of each and you should be able to see the connection.

The term fallacy is extremely broad can be seen as a mistake in the reasoning process. In essence it is where the reasoning process has 'gone off the rails'

Science relies on induction and deduction. For example, a deductive fallacy might be where the premise are true but the conclusion is false. An inductive fallacy could be exemplified by the premises not providing enough support for the conclusion.

On possible definition of critical thinking might be the elimination of fallacies by getting the induction and deduction right.

In my opinion critical thinking scientists don't tend to suffer from many fallacies because they seem to get it right most of the time. This doesn't mean their theories are correct but there reasoning process is usually sound.

I also think that there are far fewer fallacies that science can suffer from. For example, in a scientific paper you would never find the fallacy of 'argumentum ad hominem' (attacking the character of the person). It would simply be unheard of. Perhaps two scientists in a T.V. debate who were getting frustrated with each other might attack each others character, but I would also doubt that.

In scientific papers I would think that fallacies are few and far between.


Just my thoughts


Tut