A kind of thinking in which you question, analyse, interpret, evaluate and make a judgement about what you read, hear, say, or write
Critical
Comes from the Greek word kritikos meaning "able to judge or discern"
Logical fallacies
1. DictoSimpliciter: An argument based on an unqualified generalization
2. Hasty Generalization: Making a claim based on evidence that is too small
3. Post Hoc: One event seems to be the cause of a later event because it occurred earlier
Contradictory premises
A conclusion drawn from inconsistent or incompatible premises
A proposition is contradictory when it asserts and denies the same thing
Ad Misericodium
Appealing to a person's unfortunate circumstances as a way of getting someone to accept a conclusion
Hypothesis contrary to fact
The argument falsely assumes that any state of affairs can have only one possible cause
Poisoning the well
Adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing something that the target person is about to say
