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The term "Philosophy" in Greek means?
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Lover of Wisdom
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What does the word "criticize" mean?
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..to question or evaluate.
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Who said: "The unexamined life is not worth living"?
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Socrates
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Carefully exploring the thinking process to clarify our understanding and make more intelligent decisions.....
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Critical Thinking
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Using our thinking process to develop ideas that are unique, useful, and worthy of further elaboration.
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Creative thinking
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Listening carefully to every viewpoint, evaluating each perspective carefully and fairly.
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Open Minded
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Questions of FACT seek to determine __________?
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Who,what,when,where,how
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Questions of INTERPRETATION seek to determine?
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Select and organize facts and ideas, discovering relationships between them.
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Questions of Analysis seek to_____________?
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Seperate an entire process or situation into its component parts and to understand the relation of the parts to the whole.
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Questions of Synthesis seek to___________?
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Combining ideas to form a new whole or come to conclusions about future events.
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Questions of Evaluation seek to __________?
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Help us make informed decisions and judgements by determining the relative value, truth, or reliability of things.
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Questions of Application seek to __________?
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Help us take knowledge or concepts we have gained in one situation and apply them to other situations.
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What are the 5 steps to problem solving?
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1. define the problem
2. list alternatives
3. advantages/disadvantages
4. solution
5. how well is solution working
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What two conclusions does Chaffee come to when discussing thinking in ch. 1?
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1. Thinking is directed towards a goal.
2. Thinking is an organized process
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What are the five steps to take towards analyzing issues in ch. 1?
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1. What is the issue? define
2. What is the evidence?
3. What are the arguments?
4. What is the verdict?
5. Final Thoughts
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