Lecture Note 3 - Critical Thinking | Trường Đại học Quốc tế, Đại học Quốc gia Thành phố HCM

LECTURE 3
- Concept: an idea, theory, etc. about a particular subject:
- Deduction (deductive: diễn dịch): the process of learning sth based on facts and anything
specific related to them
- Induction: the act of causing an event or process to happen;
the process of discovering a general principle from a set of facts
- Necessity: the need for something
- Pattern: a particular way in which something is done, is organized, or happens
- Necessarily: used in negatives to mean "in every case" or "therefore"; in all cases; as an expected result:
- Reasoning: the process of thinking about something in order to make a decision
- Hypothetical: supposed, imagined or suggested but not necessarily real or true:
- Syllogism (tam đoạn luận): a process of logic in which two general statements lead to a
more particular statement
- Categorical: (tuyệt đối, vô điều kiện) without any doubt or possibility of being changed; certain
- Elimination: the process of removing something
- Modus(tạm ước, cách): a particular way of doing sth
- Antecedent: a word or phrase that a pronoun refers to; An antecedant is also the part of
a conditional statement thatfollows the word "if."
- Affirm: (khẳng định) to state something as true
- Consequent: happening as a result of something
- Mathematics: the study of numbers, shapes, and space using reason and usually
aspecial system of symbols and rules for organizing them
- Generalization: you say or write that something istrue all of the time when it is
only true some of the time; to make a statement that to many relates people, things,
or conditions, esp. when based on limited facts
- Authority: an expert on a subject
- Prediction: a statement about what you think will happen in the future
- Causal: causing thing to happen
- Statically: staying in one place without moving, or not changing for a long time
- Analogy (phép loại suy: suy ra từ những cái giống nhau): a comparison between things
that have similar features, often used to help explain a principle or idea
- Assert: to say that something is certainly true (quả quyết); to do something to show that you have power
- Valid (hợp lý, có cơ sở, đúng đắn): based on truth or ;
reason able to be accepted
- Validity: the quality of being based on truth or , or of being reason able to beaccepted
- Foolproof (dễ sử dụng) (of a plan or machine) so simple and easy to operate
- Conceive: to imagine something (quan niệm, tưởng tượng); to invent a plan or an idea - - -