The objections stage is the most difficult stage of CRITO because it demands fallibilism about one's own argument¶

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q1 i? Constructing the strongest imaginable objections to one's own argument is, per the author, the hardest CRITO stage because it requires imagining one's own objections and revising accordingly. → Johnson 1995

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Johnson 1995¶

Johnson, David Kenneth. (1995). CRITO: Informal Logic, Critical Thinking, and the Argumentative Essay. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED384062

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Author's interpretive statement (type e) describing the fifth CRITO stage in the method section; the reproduced text is garbled here, but the printed claim is that the objections stage is the most difficult because it sanctions unsettling fallibilism. No data support this.

"This is, perhaps, the most difficult stage of CRITO, for it sanctions a potentially unsettling fallibilism; that is, it asks us to imagine that our objections(s), making any necessary revisions to the original argument."

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