-- 07 -- Opinions - Moral Arguments
TPCT Ch. 11: Judging Moral Arguments and TheoriesReview ePortfolio 1
Chapter Six Opinions
This chapter explores that familiar word opinion and examines the way it affects our ability to think critically. Again we have a familiar but confusing word that can be used in many different ways. Exercises are offered to help you assess your understanding of the different varieties of opinion. Writing applications ask you to test and expand what you know into essays that articulate, support, describe, or analyze opinions. Readings show you how professional writers can present support for an opinion; in one case through direct statement, and in a second case through a satirical sub-statement.
| | Chapter 6 | | advice | Advice is to recommend an opinion to someone else. | argument | There are the two parts of an argument. The conclusion, or main summary idea and the reasons given to support that idea. | infer | To use imagination and reasoning to fill in missing facts. To connect the dots. | judgment | Judgment is a final opinion, decision, conclusion or evaluation about something. | opinion | Opinion is a word used to include an unsupported belief, a supported argument, an expert’s judgment, prevailing public sentiment, and a formal statement by a court. | personal taste or preference | Personal taste or preferences are forms of opinions that express likes or dislikes. They can be irrational and need not be supported with reasons. | thinking | Purposeful mental activity such as reasoning, deciding, judging, believing, supposing, expecting, intending, recalling, remembering, visualizing, imagining, devising, inventing, concentrating, conceiving, considering. | | |
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