| Glossary | |
| Chapter 4 | |
| Description versus Interpretation | Pure description provides factual details that convey an accurate objective depiction of a subject. Interpretation makes inferences and judgments about the subject. |
| Evidence | Evidence is a sign or proof that something is true or that it has or had existence. |
| Generalization | A generalization is a statement derived from the study of a number of cases that summarizes something characteristic about these cases. |
| Infer | To use imagination and reasoning to fill in missing facts. To connect the dots. |
| Justify | To justify a claim means to defend and support a claim. |
| Obvious | The obvious is something that is unconcealed and easy to see. Yet we may neglect to pay close attention to the obvious because it is so familiar. |
| Principal claim and reasons | These are the two parts of an argument. The principal claim is the thesis or conclusion. The reasons support this claim through evidence or other claims. A claim is an assertion about something. |
| Thinking | Purposeful mental activity such as reasoning, deciding, judging, believing, supposing, expecting, intending, recalling, remembering, visualizing, imagining, devising, inventing, concentrating, conceiving, considering. |