Critical Thinking and the Research Project

    

After thoroughly reading through the Information provided from "A Field Guide to Critical Thinking" I have retained a lot of useful information that will help with the research project. As I progressed the article, one point in particular stood out. The point of falsifiability or being able to conceive of evidence in order to prove your claims false. There is a fine line between claims that are meaningless and claims that are true. The true ones being able to provide counter evidence while the meaningless claims provide no evidence at all. I will have to be extremely careful in researching further in order to distinguish the meaningless claims from the true claims.

The point of logic in evidence was also very insightful. It states that a logical piece of evidence must be sound in order to support a claim. This idea of logic through evidence is distinguished by the basic way of philosophical thinking. This basic way of philosophical thinking states that a valid argument is where if the premises are true than the conclusion must be true. In looking for future information regarding my project, I will take this into account when looking at evidence. The conclusion must be supported by the back story. All in all, these points in particular well help in how I mentally process information throughout the completion of the research project. This article was very helpful in giving me many ways to focus my critical thinking skills.