Critical Thinking Reference

This is the root page of reference material for The Five Disciplines of Thought

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Concepts and Definitions

• Glossary of Critical Thinking Terms
• Some Terms for Describing Your Reflective Persona

Assignments and Exercises

• Arguments for Reconstruction
• Assessing Rationales
• Distinguishing Argument and Explanation in a Reflective Context
• Identifying rationales
• Noticing Reflective Personae in Reflective/Deliberative Contexts | Fall 2008 Student Work for "Noticing Reflective Personae"
• Reflective Persona Paper

Topics and Notes

• Burden of Proof
• Case Study of a Reconstruction - old text 71-76 Note: Additional reconstruction examples can be found at the main Critical Thinking page.
• Categorical Logic - old text 102-112
• Deductive Argument Forms
• Inductive Argument Forms
• Logical Structure in Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
• Placebo Effect
• Presumption
• Propositional Logic - old text 112-125
• The Theory of Rationales
• Thinking and the Nature of thought
• Thinking in Stereo