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Dave: You are listening to Critically Minded. Nick: The podcast for English learners who want to become better critical thinkers. We’re your hosts, Nick . . . Dave: And Dave. In this episode, we are going to discuss the second category of basic critical thinking skills, argument evaluation. Nick: When we evaluate an argument, we judge […]

Dave: You are listening to Critically Minded. Nick: The podcast for English learners who want to become better critical thinkers. We’re your hosts, Nick- Dave: And Dave. In this episode we want to discuss issues and inferences. An inference is a statement that is not spoken directly, because the speaker may be embarrassed or does not want to […]

Nick: Welcome back to Critically Minded, Critical Thinking for 2nd Language Learners. Dave: We’re your hosts, Dave– Nick: And Nick. Well now that we have learned about premises and conclusions, next we’ll be discussing how to understand an argument in terms of issues. Issues are what people are really disagreeing about when they argue for their point of […]

Dave: You are listening to Critically Minded.Nick: Critical Thinking For 2nd Language Learners. We’re your hosts, Nick-Dave: And Dave. In our last episode, we were looking at major and minor premises. Now we should discuss the words used to indicate major premises and minor premises. Nick: Major premise indicators include words like: all, no, none, every, only, everybody, nobody, […]

Dave: You are listening to Critically Minded.Nick: Critical Thinking for 2nd Language Learners. We’re your hosts, Nick . . .Dave: And Dave.The next topic we’re discussing today is conditional statements and hypothetical premises. Nick: A conditional statement says that when one set of conditions exist, then another set of conditions will also exist as a result of the first. […]

Dave: You are listening to Critically Minded.Nick: The podcast for English learners who want to become better critical thinkers. We’re your hosts, Nick-Dave: And Dave. In an earlier episode, we were discussing conditional statements and hypothetical premises. Nick: We explained that hypothetical premises are a kind of conditional statement that makes cause-and-effect predictions about future outcomes. We gave examples […]

Dave: You are listening to Critically Minded.Nick: Critical Thinking For 2nd Language Learners. We’re your hosts, Nick . . .Dave: And Dave. In our earlier episodes we discussed the organization of arguments. We noted that arguments are made up of premises leading to a conclusion.Nick: And that is a rule that is going to remain in effect throughout this […]

Nick: You are listening to Critically Minded. Dave: Critical Thinking for 2nd Language Learners. We’re your hosts, Dave … Nick: And Nick. In our earlier episode we discussed the basic organization of arguments. We talked about how conclusions needed to be supported by premises. Or, in other words, how you need to have reasons for what you believe. […]

Nick: You are listening to Critically Minded. Dave: Critical Thinking for 2nd Language Learners. We’re your hosts, Dave … Nick: And Nick. In our earlier episode we discussed the basic organization of arguments. We talked about how conclusions needed to be supported by premises. Or, in other words, how you need to have reasons for what you believe. […]

Nick: We’re back again with Critically Minded––Critical Thinking for 2nd Language Learners.Dave: The podcast for English language learners who want to improve their critical thinking skills.Nick: And we’re your hosts Nick-Dave: And Dave. In this episode we’re going to discuss two kinds of basic argument forms. In the first episodes we talked a little about organizing an argument, and […]

Dave and Nick introduce themselves and the major themes of the podcast series. Dave: Greetings everyone. You’re listening to Critically Minded: Critical Thinking For 2nd Language Learners.  I’m Dave —Nick: And I’m Nick. Thank you for downloading our first podcast.Dave: This is the first in a series of several episodes we’re planning to present on Critical Thinking for […]