Becoming A Critic Of Your Thinking

Becoming a Critic Of Your Thinking

Learning the Art of Critical Thinking

Sound Thinking Pays Off

Poor Thinking Wastes Time, Energy resulting in Problems and Frustrations

Clarify Your Thinking

Critical thinking is like an onion. There are many layers to it.

Clarify Other People’s Thinking

Stick to the Point

Question Questions

Reasoning

http://www.5min.com/Video/Inductive-Reasoning-161048064

Deductive Reasoning

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“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance” Greek philosopher Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Logical Fallacies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECZm7dm3R2c

Critical ThinkingDistinguishing Between Inert Information - “democracy is government of the people, by the people,

for the people” Activated Ignorance - actively using information that is false, though we

mistakenly think it to be true Activated Knowledge - taking into the mind, and actively using, information

that is not only true but that, when insightfully understood, leads us by implication to more and more knowledge.