What I have learned

Honestly before taking this class, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.  Knowing that the class was about Critical Thinking, I thought that I would be bored by a lot of situations and stumped by a lot of difficult scenarios.  Little did I know, I learned concepts that I could relate to and apply to my daily life.  We learned many concepts and terms, but what stood out to me were the arguments.  I really never thought about analyzing arguments or even being able to determine that they were good, bad, invalid, strong, or weak.  I just thought arguments are arguments and if it wasn't good enough you were going to lose the argument.  From this past semester, I learned that bad arguments can be unrepairable and these bad arguments are called fallacies.  I really enjoyed learning about fallacies simply because of the names that fallacies were called, such as: strawman, and shifting the burden of proof.  These terms are easy to remember and we can easily spot them in arguments that occur in our lives.