Critical Thinking. Reasoning and Communicating with Rationale. by Sytske Teppema & Fiona Patterson & Tim van Gelder & Berg Timo ter

Author:Sytske Teppema & Fiona Patterson & Tim van Gelder & Berg, Timo ter [Sytske Teppema]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Critical Thinking Skills BV
Published: 2013-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

Emotionally Measured

Ensure that the emotional tone of the language expressing the claim is appropriate to its meaning .

Example

Emotionally

Measured

Point to note

The company’s heinous subterfuges are destroying the worker’s livelihoods.

The company’s dishonest tactics are reducing the workers’ wages.

Excess emotional force should be removed.

Indonesian-backed militias ruthlessly slaughtered thousands of East Timorese.

Same

Sometimes strong emotional force is quite appropriate.

The strikes caused collateral damage

among non-combatants.

Civilians were killed and injured in the bombing.

Sometimes emotional force should be added. Euphemisms are phrases used to avoid emotional force; sometimes this is OK, but other times it obscures important matters.

‘Trying to explain the causes of his country’s civil wars, John Garang, the southern Sudanese rebel leader, told the UN Security Council last week that there had been a “failure to manage diversity”. That is one way of putting it. Another would be to say that the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum

has orchestrated mass murder and rape among any ethnic group it suspects of supporting any of the country’s rebel movements.’ The Economist, Nov. 25th 2004.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.