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Chapter 2 Self-Assessment
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We push our self-interested thinking too far when we
use inductive reasoning.
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reject claims after examining them.
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accept claims for no good reason.
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think for ourselves.
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A guideline that is not likely to help you escape self-interested thinking is
watch out when things get personal.
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tell people what they want to hear.
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be alert to ways that critical thinking can be undermined.
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ensure that nothing has been left out.
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Subjective relativism is the idea that
truth is relative to societies.
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truth depends on what someone believes.
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there is no such thing as truth.
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some objective truths are about our subjective states.
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Drawing conclusions about people without sufficient reasons is known as
stereotyping.
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appeal to common practice.
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appeal to tradition.
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peer pressure.
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Self-interested thinking can leave you vulnerable to
well-established claims.
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self-examination and self-denial.
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propaganda and manipulation.
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the needs of others.
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Category 1 obstacles to critical thinking include
reasons and explanations.
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beliefs and claims.
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fears, attitudes, and motivations.
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friends and relatives.
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Self-interest alone cannot
establish the truth of a claim.
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be controlled.
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be detected.
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affect our motivations and desires.
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You are most likely to let your self-interest get in the way of clear thinking when you
are indifferent to your circumstances.
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have a personal stake in the conclusions you reach.
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have no commitments.
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try to control your emotions.
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The sign of a maturing intellect is having the will and the courage to gradually prune beliefs that are
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uncomfortable.
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groundless.
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disapproved of by our group.
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According to social relativism, the beliefs of a society
cannot be true.
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cannot be false.
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cannot be mistaken.
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can be mistaken.
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Emotional protestations and rejections of all relevant evidence often signal the influence of self-interest on our thinking.
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A common flaw in reasoning is the failure to take relative truth into account.
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The remedy for the problem of selective attention is to make a conscious effort to look for supporting evidence.
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Group thinking can generate narrow-mindedness, resistance to change, and stereotyping.
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There are some things about ourselves that are relative because they are one way for us and another way for someone else.
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Everyone has a worldview.
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Critical thinking is self-interested thinking.
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It is always wrong to accept a claim that furthers our own interests.
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If knowledge requires certainty, then we know a great many things.
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Critical thinking is inconsistent with subjective relativism.
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Critical thinking is inconsistent with subjective relativism.
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