Critical Thinking Terms N - P Flashcards
Terms
Prejudice in favor of one’s country, its beliefs, traditions, practices, image, and world view; a form of sociocentrism or ethnocentrism.
NATIONAL BIAS
A belief that typically is open to dispute.
OPINION
A natural excellence or fitness to thinking, viewed in an attempt to understand or make sense of the world. This excellence is manifest in its clarity, precision, specificity, accuracy, relevance, consistency, logicalness, depth, completeness, significance, fairness, and adequacy.
PERFECTION OF THOUGHT
An inconsistency in one’s life wherein people say one thing and do another, or use a double-standard, judging themselves and their friends by an easier standard than they use for people they don’t like; typically a form of hypocrisy accompanied by self-deception.
PERSONAL CONTRADICTION
Perspective. Human thought is relational and selective. It is impossible to understand simultaneously any person, event, or phenomenon from every vantage point.
POINT OF VIEW
The quality of being accurate, definite, and exact.
PRECISION
A judgment, belief, opinion, or point of view—favorable or unfavorable—formed before the facts are known, resistant to evidence and reason, or in disregard of facts that contradict it.
PREJUDICE
A proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn; a starting point of reasoning.
PREMISE
A fundamental truth, law, doctrine, value, or commitment upon which others are based.
PRINCIPLE
A question, matter, situation, or person that is perplexing or difficult to figure out, handle, or resolve.
PROBLEM
The process of reaching solutions.
PROBLEM-SOLVING
Evidence or reasoning so strong or certain as to demonstrate the truth or acceptability of a conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt.
PROOF
Object, aim, goal, end in view; something one intends to get or do.
PURPOSE
