WE MUST ASSERT RATIONAL CONTROL OF OUR BELIEFS AND CONCLUSIONS. THE ALTERNATIVE IS BEING THE MENTAL SLAVE OF THE LAST PERSON WE ENCOUNTERED.
Critical thinking teaches you skills and attitudes that make you proud to have rationally discovered answers that make sense to you. Critical thinking encourages you to listen to and learn from others, while at the same time weighing the quality of what others say. In this regard, you are learning that we must depend on others, but only selectively. Critical thinking thereby liberates you, empowering you to be the supervisor of who you are becoming.

Critical Thinking

Attention: Weak-sense critical thinking is the use of critical thinking to defend your current beliefs. Strong-sense critical thinking is the use of the same skills to evaluate all claims and beliefs, especially your own.

Two Senses

Used in a variety of courses in various disciplines, Asking the Right Questions helps students bridge the gap between simply memorising or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. Specifically, this concise text teaches students to think critically by exploring the components of arguments--issues, conclusions, reasons, evidence, assumptions, language--and on how to spot fallacies and manipulations and obstacles to critical thinking in both written and visual communication. It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.

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by M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley

Critical Thinking

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Anastaska Кузнецова's Key Ideas from Asking the Right Questionsby M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley

Critical Thinking

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Anastaska Кузнецова's Key Ideas from Asking the Right Questions
by M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley