Critical Thinking Reference

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

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Concepts

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

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

• Burden of Proof
• Case Study of a Reconstruction #1
• Categorical Logic - old text 102-112
• Deductive Argument Forms
• Form in Explanation
• Further Notes on Validity
• 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