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Objective Claim
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Independent on our opinionex: "there is life on mars"- If everyone believed there was life on mars doesn't mean that suddenly there would be life
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Subjective Claim
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Dependent on our opinion/ tasteex: "rice vinegar is too sweet"- is it to sweet, depends on what you think
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Argument
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*a set of claims that establish truth or another claimPremise: intended to provide a reason for accepting (evidence/reasonsConclusion: stating a position
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Claims of fact
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Claims about how the world is
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Claims of value
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Good and bad/ right and wrong
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Claims of policy
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How the world should be
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Belief bias
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Tendency to evaluate reasoning by how believable its conclusion seems
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Availability Heuristics
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We judge something based on how easily we can recall that information
ex: r +k vs. r or k being 3rd letter |
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False consensus effect
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Assuming our own attitudes and those held by people around us are sharing by society at large
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Bandwagon
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Unconscious tendency to align ones thinking with that of other people.
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Negativity bias
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Tendency people have to weight negative information more heavily than positive information
ex: always being truthful but one time lie....remembered for being a liar |
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Loss aversion
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People generally are more strongly motivated to avoid a loss than to accrue a gain
ex: giving vs getting $5 taken away |
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In-group bias
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Percieving negative opinions of people who don't belong to our group
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Obedience to authority
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Doing something b/c someone of higher power said to
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Overconfidence effect
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Convinsing yourself being good at something you know little about.
ex: american idol and people believing they will win |
