Difference between revisions of "Glossary of Critical Thinking Terms"
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- argument
- A rationale or information structure that includes reasons for believing in some conclusion
- claim
- A statement that is asserted as true with an argumentative or explanatory rationale. A Claim can be a premise or a conclusion.
- conclusion
- A claim in an argumentative or explanatory context. In arguments, conclusions are claims are the part of the rationale for which the premises provide reasons. In explanations, the conclusion is the claim that the explanation pruports to explain.
- explanation
- A rationale in which some phenomena or fact (stated in the conclusion) is
- rationale
- Any information structure in which reasons or explanations are offered for a claim (the conclusion).
- reason
- Within critical thinking, a reason is any consideration or evidence that helps support an inference to a conclusion.
- reflective/deliberative context
- Any situation (face-to-face or mediated) in which reasons are offered for conclusions.
