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University of Puerto Rico Aguadilla Campus English Department English 3202 Reading, Composition and Writing Prof.  Robert Guzman January 2012 Basic Concepts: FiLCHeRS The basic elements of critical thinking include the following concepts. You... More

University of Puerto Rico Aguadilla Campus English Department English 3202 Reading, Composition and Writing Prof.  Robert Guzman January 2012 Basic Concepts: FiLCHeRS The basic elements of critical thinking include the following concepts. You are expected to know their definitions and how they overlap and interrelate with each other. Dogmatic vs. Tentative Premise & Reasonable Conclusion Comprehensiveness Honesty Replicability Suficiency Falsifiability Logic Unfalsifiability Fundamentalism (four major characteristics: dogmatic, dualistic, Theo-centric, scriptural literalists)) Magical Thinking Evidential Thinking Paranormal Claims Encoding, Decoding Transmission Four Language Arts (Which are natural? Which are artificial?) Illiteracy Arbitrary Abstraction Idea Audience Variables that effect the audience’s perception of language Industrial Revolution Guttenberg’s Press (Importance of…) Less