Dr. Michael J. LeHew, PhD

Critical Thinking

Foundation to higher learning: Basic skills may be gained through simple training, memorization, and the "drill" process, but higher learning requires the use of the process known as "critical thinking".

Dr. LeHew, was an instructor of Critical Thinking, long before he attended "college", entered "academia", and the formal admission into the "academy" as a boarded "PhD" from an accredited and "sunshine" rule University of his peers.

Subjectivism and Relativism? SUBJECTIVISM: You do not need to have a degree to have learned that two groups of people can be CORRECT on an issue NOT BASED on facts; This area falls into the fields of counseling, religion, and many areas of "belief based" arguments.

RELATIVISM: and equally as important to life is the concept as the non- educational requirement to KNOW that two doctors can both tell you TWO different OPINIONS based upon the same facts. (YOU WILL STILL DIE, and ONE WILL BE WRONG; of course - the doctors I mean would be incorrect; oops...)

Critical thoughts?

Is the argument a factual argument? Is it non-factual?

Not all arguments need be right, nor wrong? Do all arguments need answering, or proven to be true or false etc.

Example?

Is there ICE in the refrigerator? On the Moon? In a Volcano? How much does it COST to feed X number of people a Y type of meal on Z type of budget?

Does this dress make me LOOK FAT? Is there a GOD? Is abortion RIGHT or WRONG? Is killing RIGHT OR WRONG?

Some things are FACTUAL, and some are nonfactual arguments, with OPINION thrown in. They are both ARGUMENTS, to be SURE, but not based upon the SAME EMPIRICAL, or PROVEN FACTS.

 

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.” – Winston Churchill

“Eating words has never given me indigestion.” – Winston Churchill