Eongar
Dagobah Resident
I read a book called "How to research" Loraine Blaxter, Christina Hughes and Malcolm Tight. Here I publish some guidelines for the study and analysis of information.
- Who is the author?
- What is your position?
- What are your prejudices?
- When and where was the document or information arose?
- How can it happen? Who?
- In what context was?
- What does and does not say the document / information?
- How is the information?
- How grounded and convincing is the argument?
- How does it relate to previous documents?
- How it relates to subsequent documents?
- What do they have to say about other sources?
And besides:
- Can we prove empirically or experimentally the information? (This question is mine, referring especially to the "spiritual realm")
Evaluating an argument:
1. Identify conclusions and reasons: search for "indicators
conclusion "(keywords to be searched are:" Therefore "," So"
"Here", "thus"; find "indicators of reasons" (key words
to be searched, "because", "as")and / or:
-Ask: What do you intend the piece to believe or accept me?
-Ask: What reasons or evidence used to make me believe this?
2. Identify unspoken assumptions:
-Assumptions that support basic reasons.
-Assumptions that operate as additional reasons.
-Assumptions that operate intermediate conclusions.
-Assumptions concerning the meaning of words.
-Assumptions about similar or comparable situations.
-Assumptions regarding the adequacy of a concrete explanation.
Evaluate:
3 Assess the truth of the reasons / assumptions: how would seek more
information to help you do this?
4 Assess the reliability of the authorities from which depends the
reasoning.
5 Are there any additional evidence to strengthen or weaken the conclusion?
Any that might be true? "Any that you know is true?
6 Assess the plausibility of any explanation that has
identified.
7 Evaluate the appropriateness of the comparisons that have been identified.
8 Can you draw any conclusions about the passage? If the answer is
yes, the reasoning suggests that the passage is wrong?
9 is aligned with a passage reasoning reasoning
passage that you know is wrong?
10 Are any of the reasons or assumptions holds a general principle?
If so, evaluate it.
11 Is The conclusion is based either in the reasoning? If not, can
stating how the way the passage of the reasons the conclusion is
wrong? Use the answers to questions 5 to 10 as support for
this.
- Who is the author?
- What is your position?
- What are your prejudices?
- When and where was the document or information arose?
- How can it happen? Who?
- In what context was?
- What does and does not say the document / information?
- How is the information?
- How grounded and convincing is the argument?
- How does it relate to previous documents?
- How it relates to subsequent documents?
- What do they have to say about other sources?
And besides:
- Can we prove empirically or experimentally the information? (This question is mine, referring especially to the "spiritual realm")
Evaluating an argument:
1. Identify conclusions and reasons: search for "indicators
conclusion "(keywords to be searched are:" Therefore "," So"
"Here", "thus"; find "indicators of reasons" (key words
to be searched, "because", "as")and / or:
-Ask: What do you intend the piece to believe or accept me?
-Ask: What reasons or evidence used to make me believe this?
2. Identify unspoken assumptions:
-Assumptions that support basic reasons.
-Assumptions that operate as additional reasons.
-Assumptions that operate intermediate conclusions.
-Assumptions concerning the meaning of words.
-Assumptions about similar or comparable situations.
-Assumptions regarding the adequacy of a concrete explanation.
Evaluate:
3 Assess the truth of the reasons / assumptions: how would seek more
information to help you do this?
4 Assess the reliability of the authorities from which depends the
reasoning.
5 Are there any additional evidence to strengthen or weaken the conclusion?
Any that might be true? "Any that you know is true?
6 Assess the plausibility of any explanation that has
identified.
7 Evaluate the appropriateness of the comparisons that have been identified.
8 Can you draw any conclusions about the passage? If the answer is
yes, the reasoning suggests that the passage is wrong?
9 is aligned with a passage reasoning reasoning
passage that you know is wrong?
10 Are any of the reasons or assumptions holds a general principle?
If so, evaluate it.
11 Is The conclusion is based either in the reasoning? If not, can
stating how the way the passage of the reasons the conclusion is
wrong? Use the answers to questions 5 to 10 as support for
this.
