Critical Thinking Reference

Concepts and Definitions

This wiki site provides supplementary material for the critical thinking text, The Five Disciplines of Thought

• 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
• Reflective Persona Paper

Topics and Notes

• Case Study of a Reconstruction - old text 71-76
• Categorical Logic - old text 102-112
• Deductive Argument Forms
• Explanation - old text 137-149
• Logical Structure in Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
• Principles of Fair Interpretation - old text 79-83
• Propositional Logic - old text 112-125
• Thinking and the Nature of thought
• Thinking in Stereo

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