| 0.1 Appreciate why CT skills are worth learning |
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| 0.2 Understand how to take this course |
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| 1.1 Define the word “argument” |
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| 1.2 Distinguish arguments from fights |
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| 1.3 Distinguish arguments from descriptions |
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| 1.4 Listen carefully to arguments you disagree with |
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| 1.5: Choose the interpretation of someone’s statement that is most likely to be true |
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| 1.6 Practice charity in the world |
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| 2.1 Distinguish claims from compound claims, fragments, questions, exclamations etc. ("Identify Claims" for short) |
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| 2.2 Determine whether a statement is serving as a premise, objection, or neither with respect to a claim. (Includes defining main claim, premise, objection) |
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| 2.3: Identify argument components in a passage |
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| 2.4 Test premises for truth or reasonableness/plausibility |
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| 3.1 Use inference indicator words to identify components of arguments |
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| 3.2 Use indicator words to construct mini-arguments |
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| 3.3 Use argument maps to visually represent indicator words |
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| 3.4 Place a “Not So” objection accurately in an argument |
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| 3.5: Recognize that just because a premise is false, doesn’t mean the main claim is false. (Bad arguments can still have true main claims.) |
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| 4.1 Recognize when one claim gives a reason to believe another claim. (As opposed to vice-versa, and as opposed to providing related ideas or background info) (Includes knowing the definition of the Reason Rule) |
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| 4.2 Determine which piece(s) of evidence support(s) a claim |
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| 4.3 Distinguish arguments from causal explanations. |
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| 4.4 Test inferences for strength/weakness |
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| 5.1 Recognize and map arguments that have multiple independent premises. (Includes knowing the definition of independent premises)/5.2 Evaluate independent premises by considering each line of support, one at a time. |
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| 5.3 Recognize and map chain arguments. (Includes knowing the definition of "sub-premise" and "chain argument", and distinguishing ind. from sub-premises)/5.4 Evaluate a chain argument by working your way up the chain from the bottom |
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| 5.5 Map short arguments that include independent and sub-premises |
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| 6.1 Recognize and map co-premises. |
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| 6.2 Visualize evidence and reasoning as co-premises |
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| 6.3 Evaluate co-premises |
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| 6.4 Map short arguments that include co-premises. |
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| 7.1 Use MindMup to map an argument. |
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| 7.2 Use MindMup to evaluate an argument. |
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| 7.3 Save and share the map with others. |
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| 8.1 Identify mistakes in maps (Top 7 most common mistakes) |
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| 8.2 Use MindMup to map arguments that don’t have missing co-premises |
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