Critical and Creative Thinking / Levels 5 and 6 / Reasoning
Content description
Consider when analogies might be used in expressing a point of view and how they should be expressed and evaluated
Elaborations
considering a range of sample analogies and discussing possible sources for analogies, for example, personal experience
examining the form of an argument by analogy and constructing examples, for example ‘just as a machine goes rusty and stiffens if the parts don’t move, people’s bodies also need to move’ as part of a promotion strategy for exercise
discussing the strength of an analogy by examining whether there is good reason to think that a particular characteristic is shared, for example that people’s bodies share an adequate degree of similarity with machines in an analogy about the need to keep machines maintained and exercise
Code
VCCCTR026
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