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    Can This Point Be Expressed in Another Way?

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    The document outlines several important intellectual standards for evaluating statements and arguments: clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, significance, depth, breadth, logic, and fairness. Each standard is accompanied by a question to help assess whether a statement meets that particular standard.

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    Can This Point Be Expressed in Another Way?

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    The document outlines several important intellectual standards for evaluating statements and arguments: clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, significance, depth, breadth, logic, and fairness. Each standard is accompanied by a question to help assess whether a statement meets that particular standard.

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    The document outlines several important intellectual standards for evaluating statements and arguments: clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, significance, depth, breadth, logic, and fairness. Each standard is accompanied by a question to help assess whether a statement meets that particular standard.

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    Srikanth Shankar
    The document outlines several important intellectual standards for evaluating statements and arguments: clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, significance, depth, breadth, logic, and fairness. Each standard is accompanied by a question to help assess whether a statement meets that particular standard.

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    INTELLECTUAL STANDARDS

    Some of the most important intellectual standards are:


    Clarity: If a statement is unclear, we cannot determine if it is accurate or
    even relevant.
    Ask yourself this question: Can this point be expressed in another
    way?
    Accuracy: A statement may be clear, but not accurate.
    Ask yourself this question: How can the statement be checked?
    Precision: A statement can be both clear and accurate, but not precise.
    Ask yourself this question: Are more details available?
    Relevance: A statement can be clear, accurate, and precise, but not
    relevant to the question at issue.
    Ask yourself this question: How is that connected to the question?
    Significance: Even if a statement is relevant to the question at issue, it
    may not be significant.
    Ask yourself this question: Will this really make a difference in the
    outcome?
    Depth: Even a good statement can be superficial.
    Ask yourself this question: Does my answer address the
    complexities of the problem?
    Breadth: Certain topics may be so complex that different view points
    sound completely different.
    Ask yourself this question: Do I need to look at this from another
    point of view?

    Logic: When we think, we bring many separate thoughts together into


    some order. The combination of thoughts must be mutually supporting.
    If they are not, they are not logical.
    Ask yourself this question: Does all this make sense together?
    Fairness: While life isn't actually fair, if we truly want the best result
    from our thinking we must examine all the evidence impartially.

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