exercise on complex reasoning: how to do critical thinking, logically, with qualitative data
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How to do Critical Thinking when there is a complex argument to be developed. This can be used to combine induction with retroduction, or induction or other bits of evidence. You can also use it to analyse things that contradict each other. Fill in the form. Then develop your ideas, find out more, and return to it. NOw refine your ideas till it is a coherent, consistent, logical argument. This exercise is deliberately left blank for you to fill in.TRANSCRIPT
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Complex Reasoning: By Wendy Olsen 2014
P=Premises, the assertions that underpin your argument.
C=Conclusions, the findings that result from the steps in your argument, when they are knit together.
R=Reasoning, the logic or type of synthetic assertion that brings Premises together with either
Evidence or Other (e.g. perhaps with the conclusion of an earlier argument), leading inevitably to the
Conclusion
Supposition (See Alec Fisher, The Logic of Real Arguments, Ch. 8): an assertion which may or may
not be true, and from which we derive a falsifiable statement.
Evidence: empirically noted information, summaries, data tables, quotes, etc.
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