The standards and criteria used in evaluating arguments and their forms of reasoning are studied in logic.
Here fallacies are used in order to evaluate arguments.
"They need to be able to evaluate arguments, and to do this they need to understand how science works."
Do usually evaluates arguments before passing them to a function.
Facilitative and transformative mediators do not evaluate arguments or direct the parties to a particular settlement.
"At least post-Enlightenment one would hope that our ability to reason and actively evaluate arguments also plays at least as significant a role."
In evaluating such arguments several problems arise.
Economics reporters should know how to evaluate arguments so that they don't pass along these nonsense counterfactuals to the public.
Basic critical thinking skills - how to evaluate arguments, evidence, and information sources including the media.
Deduction is best thought of as tool for evaluating arguments, rather than making them.