Chapter three: Reports, inferences, judgments
Whooooooohooooooo!!!! Well lets start scrutinizing each part of this chapter shall we? From the previous chapter we already know what are reports. Let me refresh your memory just in case you forgot. Reports are facts that can be verifiable and that's what we most rely on in terms of our knowledge.
What are inferences?
Based on my reading on this third chapter, inferences are statements about what we don't know based on what we do know. So for example, "because i saw the store full of glass things, everything in there is expensive." We don't actually know that the store items will be expensive but we do know that there are glass items that are sold there.
What are Judgments?
Judgments in this book are referred as expressions of a person approval or disapproval of an specific thing that is described current events, or even people. Most often people confuse judgments with reports. Remember reports are facts. Something we can check and actually approve it. Now judgments are your approval or disapproval to a certain thing. For example the example that is given to the reader, "Jack lied to us" is a judgment because we jump into a conclusion of the act of lien based on what we have observed.
In chapter three, the topic about Slanting. Slanting is basically pick and choosing what you want to say from a specific report. Sometimes this changes the whole meaning of what the actual report is about. For example, the love story of Romeo and Juliet. "The story about the two lovers who could never be together" would be the the slant version of the actual play. I'm picking and choosing on what to tell you. I don't get in detail about what actually happened in the story or tell you about the big conflicts between the Capulets and the Montagues. Get my point? To make it even more simpler, lets say we watched the movie Titanic.
Slant version: "The movie about the ship that sank."
Whooooooohooooooo!!!! Well lets start scrutinizing each part of this chapter shall we? From the previous chapter we already know what are reports. Let me refresh your memory just in case you forgot. Reports are facts that can be verifiable and that's what we most rely on in terms of our knowledge.
What are inferences?
Based on my reading on this third chapter, inferences are statements about what we don't know based on what we do know. So for example, "because i saw the store full of glass things, everything in there is expensive." We don't actually know that the store items will be expensive but we do know that there are glass items that are sold there.
What are Judgments?
Judgments in this book are referred as expressions of a person approval or disapproval of an specific thing that is described current events, or even people. Most often people confuse judgments with reports. Remember reports are facts. Something we can check and actually approve it. Now judgments are your approval or disapproval to a certain thing. For example the example that is given to the reader, "Jack lied to us" is a judgment because we jump into a conclusion of the act of lien based on what we have observed.
In chapter three, the topic about Slanting. Slanting is basically pick and choosing what you want to say from a specific report. Sometimes this changes the whole meaning of what the actual report is about. For example, the love story of Romeo and Juliet. "The story about the two lovers who could never be together" would be the the slant version of the actual play. I'm picking and choosing on what to tell you. I don't get in detail about what actually happened in the story or tell you about the big conflicts between the Capulets and the Montagues. Get my point? To make it even more simpler, lets say we watched the movie Titanic.
Slant version: "The movie about the ship that sank."
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