Critical Thinking Learning Objectives
 Week 1 Learning Objective: Logical
Fallacies (Almossawi, 2014)
 Week 2 Learning Objective: Straw Man
(Almossawi, 2014)
 Week 2 Learning Objective: Appeal to
Irrelevant Authority (Almossawi, 2014)
Critical Thinking Improvements to Life
The Logical Fallacies are all about describing the
small errors in reasoning that plague a lot of our
present discourse. This helps the way I
communicate because when I communicate with
someone there will always be some errors and
that will help us learn.
The Straw Man argument is usually one that is
more absurd than the actual argument, making it
an easier target to attack and possibly luring a
person towards defending the more ridiculous
argument rather than the original one. This helps
communication by persuading people to believe
in other absurd things rather than believe the
most logical thing.
An Appeal to Irrelevant is an appeal to one's
sense of modesty, which is to say, an appeal to
the feeling that others are more knowledgeable.
This helps the communication by having