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 * __22 Terms to use for goals__**

categorize ..................interpret complete ....................justify deduce .......................measure demonstrate ................organize determine ....................quantify diagram ......................redesign distinguish ..................relate elaborate ....................revise examine .....................simplify explain .......................synthesize generalize ...................type

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8 Standards of Critical Thought__ (see Critical thinking packet #1) Accuracy Relevance Consistency Logical Correctness Completeness Fairness**
 * Clarity**
 * Precision

__Recognizing Arguments__ (see Recognizing Arguments) Conclusion**
 * Premises

__Disqualifiers of Arguments__ (see Recognizing Arguments)
 * Reports:**convey information about a subject
 * Unsupported Assertions**: statements about what a speaker or writer happens to believe
 * Conditional Statements**: if then's
 * Illustrations**: intended to provide //examples// of a claim, rather than prove or support the claim
 * Explanations**: tries to show //why// something is the case, not to prove //that// it is the case

__Tests for Explanations__ (see Recognizing Arguments)
 * Common Knowledge Test**: is the passage seeking to prove or explain a matter of common knowledge?
 * Past-Event Test**: is the passage seeking to prove or explain and event that occurred in the past?
 * Author's Intent Test**: is the speaker's or writer's intent to prove or establish //that// something is the case?
 * Principle of Charity Test**: interpreting unclear passages generously, and in particular, that we never interpret a passage as a bad argument when the evidence reasonably permits us to interpret it as not an argument at all

DO OUR STATEMENTS PASS THE DISQUALIFIERS AND THE TESTS FOR EXPLANATIONS?

P.I. (premise indicators): since, as indicated by, because, for, in that, may be inferred from, as, given that, seeing that, for the reason that, inasmuch as, owing to

C.I. (conclusion indicators): therefore, wherefore, thus, consequently, we may infer, accordingly, we may conclude, it must be that, for this reason, so, entails that, hence, it follows that, implies that, as a result

INDICATORS ARE NOT NECESSARY IN ARGUMENTS.