1.09 Vocabulary Flashcards
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The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself and to regard one’s own opinions, values, or interests as most important.
Egocentrism
The commitment to consider all relevant opinions equally without regard to one’s own sentiments or selfish interests.
Fair-mindedness
Flaws or errors in reasoning which, when found in the premise of an argument, invalidate its conclusion.
Fallacies
Fear of ideas or viewpoints that do not conform to one’s own. Term used by Paul and Elder.
Intellectual cowardice
The act of routinely inhabiting the perspectives of others in order to genuinely understand them. Term used by Paul and Elder.
Intellectual empathy
Openness to the possibility that one’s beliefs are mistaken and a willingness to reevaluate them in the face of new evidence or persuasive counterarguments. Term used by Paul and Elder.
Intellectual humility
The act of working one’s way through intellectual complexities despite frustrations inherent in doing so. Term used by Paul and Elder.
Intellectual perseverance
Another term for critical thinking. It is first-order thinking (or ordinary thinking) that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and improved). Term used by Paul and Elder.
Second-order thinking
The assumption that one’s own social group is inherently superior to all others.
Sociocentrism
The ability to win an argument regardless of flaws in its reasoning.
Sophistry
A fixed or oversimplified conception of a person, group, or idea.
Stereotype
Thinking that uses critical thinking skills to evaluate all beliefs, especially one’s own, and that pursues what is intellectually fair and just.
Strong-sense critical thinking
Thinking that does not consider counter viewpoints, that lacks fair-mindedness and that uses critical thinking skills simply to defend current beliefs.
Weak-sense critical thinking
