Learning objective 8-2: Reasoning
Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
- analyse and evaluate reasoned arguments.
Indicators
- Analyses a range of different reasoned arguments.
- Evaluates a range of different reasoned arguments.
Possible context elaborations
Identify arguments from different parts of the range of arguments, including deductive and inductive arguments.
Distinguish between different kinds of inductive arguments such as arguments by analogy, arguments by generalisation, and arguments with probable conclusions.
Apply these distinctions to the analysis and evaluation of arguments put forward in response to questions such as:
- How do we know that a theory is true?
- To what extent is the theory of evolution a scientific theory?
- To what extent is the theory of global warming a scientific theory?
- To what extent is goodness objective, subjective, or both?
- To what extent are numbers objective, subjective, or both?
- How do we know that the universe exists objectively?
- How can we know that God does or does not exist?
Assessment for qualifications
See
NCEA assessment: level 3 for suggestions of achievement standards and unit standards that could be used to assess this learning.
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Last updated October 24, 2011
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