Critical Thinking: Arguments and non-Arguments 

Quite simply, I taught the textbook. Actually, though, its very common in CT to distinguish between explanations and arguments. Not all explanations are "conclusions regarding causation". I suppose for those that are, your objection would hold good. Generally, explanations do something different than argument

You are a real teacher. One who actually cares. More of you!

Hi Gregory. Great lecture, thanks. I'm in the UK and while your examples are US specific, the gist of the content is still very relevant.

Great lecture! It is actually making sense to me now! The way you explain it makes it seem so simple. My professor just told us to read the textbook and the textbook didn't make any sense at all. I think I will actually do well in my class because of your videos! Thank you!!!!

thank you so much Dr. Sadler, you make it simple to understand. Don´t mind the "haters" on the comments, haha I´m enjoying your videos and even better applying this to my way of communicating and thinking. All the way from Mexico. Keep up the good work Dr.

i like your teaching style. Thank you so much :)

The book he referred to is Moore and Parker's Critical Thinking, 8th ed, he has provided the link in the comments of the previous (first) video of the series.

Politicians don't have arguments, they just rant about what they want to happen and try and make you think it is good to agree with them.

@Sulatanov you're quite welcome -- much more is now available on my personal channel

This guy is a great teacher. Thank you.

Man.. i feel sorry for this wonderful teacher.

great lecture, thanks.

Perfect, thank you.

Awesome lecture Thank you :)

Very true -- all of that. My family is mostly people in the trades

thank you for pointing that out... I say it all the time.

Great Professor! Very clear lecture.

I can’t believe i just watched your first class and I’m alreading spotting bullshtters on the internet. Hope to learn some more

This is a good video because you stuck to the point. For example, even when you were talking about 'explanations' at 15:00 you showed how they are NOT arguments.

Understand this much more than when my professor lectured.

nice video. Very helpful

Again, thank you for the videos! Curious....could you send me a message as to what book you were/are using? I'm sure it is not the same text that we are using however I'm curious :) Thanks!

I appreciate the response. I'm still a little puzzled by the claim "Not all explanations are 'conclusions regarding causation". Can you give some examples please? Also, which textbook do you use to teach this course? Thanks.

May I ask, what textbook is being used for this class? I really enjoy the way Dr Sadler presents his lessons.

Thanks for this lecture. Could I ask about this book . Or reference that you referred in lecture

i ve had a head injury and ever since my social judgmnt i s down the drain---- why ??

Thanks..very useful:)

I actually think that the last arguments premise is that the world has changed with the conclusion that it should challenge us. The supporting claims were the premises he used.

Followup question: Why did you choose to make a dichotomy between explanations and arguments? Explanations are conclusions regarding causation. (I typed this because I had a question). Conclusions are parts of arguments. Therefore, explanations are parts of arguments as well.

That would have been a killer idea!

about his statement : "any american can go to college, but not in France or Germany, where you must be cleaver enought to be selected" Exact ! but Wrong on the financial aspect. In France, College costs nothing, and in USA ( if my informations are right ) you must be rich enought to pay for your college studies. So, selection by intellectual capability in France, versus selection by financial means in USA.

Does anyone know the name of the textbook he’s working from?

From the pledge of allegiance: "And to the republic for which it stands"

still feeling confuse in difference between Argument and Explanation. please any empirical example beside the exerpts Dr. Sadler is disgussing?

Great lecture. Opened my eyes to my mistakes. Speaker is good too. I just don't understand why he has to pick up that cup all the time. What for?

THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT DEMOCRACY IS

Hohoho, this guy is a ton of fun with his prejudices.

It is actually considered Constitutional federalism :)

And I'd go on to say that although many Americans have a college education, they still are not critical thinkers and base many of their beliefs on superstition and supernatural beliefs, rather than on rational reasoning and evidence. I point to the number of religious people in the US. I am making the assumption that the value of an education is in your ability to reason, not your ability to make money. Unfortunately, many Americans think that moneymaking trumps reasoning ability.

is it too radical to have people take critical thinking classes before they are allowed to vote??

You should rent out the space on your coffee cup for ads, because then you could save up the money to buy a jet pack.

what is the difference ? democracy = from δῆμος (dêmos) "people" and κράτος (kratos) "power" republic = a form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter" (Latin: res publica) these are WIKIPEDIA définitions, which both lead to understand : " people runs the country " , but what do YOU mean ?

Explanation: "Dr. Sadler is upset because his class doesn't understand the concept of democracy." Argument: "Because his class doesn't understand the concept of democracy, Dr. Sadler is probably upset."

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a republic is part of the federalism. learn your government. we have multiple branches. the republic format is through the senate, but could also be referring to the house, and legislative branch as a whole, which was was deemed the most important by the founders. Regardless, the pledge was made in the late 1800s, and although adopted in the 1940's, does not necessarily provide any evidence that the United states is a republic. If you would simply look up the definitions for each, you could see.

Good luck

John Boner XD

The information is good. His teaching style... meh, not so much.

Red States.

We still use blackboards at Harvard. Good luck!

Did you even watch this video? lol. make a claim, support it with evidence ;) The united states is clearly a Constitutional federalism, if you care to remain ignorant of that fact, so be it.

What does democracy mean? /crickets.. This country is a mess.

good teacher. though i think he's unintentionally bullying his students into wanting to participate less.

I like lectures where the professor is more focused on giving a lecture and is passionate about a subject instead of asking a thousand questions. OF COURSE THEY KNOW WHAT DEMOCRACY IS. Do they need to tell you that? no. Move on. Watch Dr. Sapolsky's lectures and you'll know what I mean.