week 2 post 5

field guide to critical thinking

This six step guide is to help decipher whether or not a claim is realor not. FiLCHeRS stands for Falsifiability, Logic, Comprehensiveness,Honesty, Replicabilty and Sufficiency. Falsifiabilty is interestingbecause in order to prove something is true, there must be a way todisprove it as well. For example, i cant make a scientific claim abouta dream i had because there is no way to prove that i did or didn'thave that dream. Logic talks about evidence being sound. Drawingconclusions from incomplete information can result in unsound orinvalid answers. That leads to comprehensiveness which says that allevidence must be presented, which ties into honesty. One must presental information and accept the conclusion honestly. Replicability hasto do with any previous claims or experiments having to dowith thecurrent claim. Tests should be repeated to obtain the same conclusionsbefore being able to move on.