Stage 5 Critical Thinking

Starter: Logic puzzle

In groups, choose a way of knowing and investigate it more.

Use these questions to help:

Emotion

Can/should we control our emotions? Are emotions the enemy of, or necessary for, good reasoning?

Imagination

What is the role of imagination in producing knowledge about the real world? Can imagination reveal truths that reality hides?

Reason

What is the difference between reason and logic? How reliable is inductive reasoning?

Sense perception

How can we know if our senses are reliable? What is the role of expectation or theory in sense perception?

Intuition

Are there certain things that you have to know before you can intuitively know anything? Should you trust your intuition?

Each group shares what they have learned