Dr Cristina Neesham, Critical Thinking for Practical Leadership, MIBCOM, ASE Bucharest, December 2008
Examples:
1. Of cour the government must crack down on drug trafficking, after all that’s what most reasonable, law-abiding people believe.
2. It is always better to drink white wine with fish. John Howard says so, he must know what he’s talking about, he’s the Prime Minister.
3. As no one’s proved that UFOs exist, it is reasonable to assume that they don’t.
4. Of cour academics argue in favour of the propod expansion of university education: the more aspiring graduates there are, the more job opportunities there are for people like them. This is why we should reject the idea that university education should be expanded.
5. The government should give up its plans to spend ten billion dollars on extra surgery in order to reduce hospital waiting lists. It’s just not possible to get rid of waiting lists that way.
6. You only have to look at the statistics to e that poverty is the obvious cau of educational under-achievement. Eighty percent of tho who leave school with no qualifications come from homes who income is at least fifty percent below the average.
7. If US interest rates stay below the 3 percent benchmark and market ntiment remains positive, then gold could rally to new highs in the near term.
8. The monarchy has a long tradition in this country, therefore it should be prerved.
9. On the Senate floor in 1950, Joe McCarthy announced that he had penetrated ‘Truman’s iron curtain of crecy’. He had 81 ca histories of persons whom he considered to be Communists in the State Department. Of Ca 40, he said, ‘I do not have much information on this except the general statement of the agency that there is nothing in the files to disprove his Communist connections’.
10. Mankind has grown strong through eternal struggle, so it will only perish through eternal
peace.
