Critical Thinking: Fallacies, Benefits, and Other Crucial Aspects

By Marco Jameson

The following topics are included in this 2-book combo:



Book 1: What makes someone a critical thinker?


The attributes of such a person are elaborately described in this book. Alongside with that, the book highlights the many benefits of critical thinking, an often-neglected brain skills society needs to improve on.


However, most of the book is focused on relevant and irrelevant reasoning. So often, we attribute certain consequences to the wrong causes. We jump to conclusions based on limited information, emotions, or generalizations. This book will clear all that up by giving you new insights to determine what is relevant and what is not.



Book 2: What is a fallacy? Many people may have heard the word before but don’t grasp the magnitude of it. They erroneously assume that they aren’t guilty of embracing half-truths or false conclusions. And yet, those are often the ones who do it the most.


In this guide, you will receive greater comprehension of what fallacies are and close your blind spot to the truth of things.


Later, the author goes on to instruct you on inductive and deductive reasoning, which are two techniques that help people reach logical conclusions without going astray in their paths of thinking.


Last but not least, a long chapter is devoted to developing moral character, our conscience, and our ethics. Everything can be justified, but to live with our conscience is an art by itself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Efalon Acies
• Release date: Oct 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220202763

Book preview

Reasoning

Chapter 1: Attributes and Meanings

Critical thinking can be defined as learning to think in a better way by enhancing a person's thinking skills. Individuals who are critical thinkers can use the thinking process to examine, consider, reflect on and piece together what they have learned or are now learning. Regrettably, much of everyone's thinking tends to be prejudiced, inaccurate, uncertain, uninformed or even sexist or racist. Since this becomes severely restricting, critical thinking is needed to improve its quality and value.

Within the basics, critical thinking is necessary for: getting rid of problems, making changes, or adaptations within work structures, techniques and problem-solving circumstances, resolving situational conflict and pressing concerns; also, it can help with developing and implementing new ideas, methods and solutions.

Critical thinking development is a progressive process. It requires the following: mastering plateaus of cognitive development and also keeping a serious focus on the process itself, changing personal practices of thought, which have the tendency to be a long-range project.

Within the development of critical thinking, it is very important to recognize what does not comprise its fundamental components. Critical thinking is not achieved by: saying something without carefully thinking it through, taking a guess at what one thinks ought to be done, memorizing topics to study, discuss or take a look at random things, doing something simply because it has always been done, believing something because it is what everybody else tends to actually believe, or arguing about something when there are no real pieces of evidence to back the argument.

There are lots of definitions to: What is critical thinking? That's to be expected. Critical thinking incorporates much of what we do when we are using our brains.

Words like: thinking, translating, observation and more are used to describe critical thinking.

Expressions are also used, such as: logical thinking, focused thinking, cognitive processes, reflective ideas and informed opinions. Other expressions such as: examining info to obtain a judgment are even used.

Chapter 2: What are the benefits of critical thinking for you?

There are 3 answers to that interesting question.

1. To make informed choices - Making smart choices is essential in your life. You have to select everything, from where to have tomorrow's lunch, to what career to go after. The more you are able to use your experiences and knowledge, the better your choices are.

2. To comprehend - Your capability to comprehend something is another vital component of your life. You are exposed to a broad variety of information on television, the Internet, books, magazines and people around you.

Comprehending things leads to opinions and decision-making. For instance, by reading more about, and comprehending the positions of 2 political opponents, you are better equipped to make a nuanced choice on whom to vote for.

3. To develop, imagine and discover - The capability to create, imagine, and discover are human traits that exist in all of us. We create stunning art, writing, music and more. We create things like the light bulb, the computer system and rockets. We discover things like E= MC2, penicillin, and DNA.

The capability to create, imagine and find all need decision-making. It's an integral part of each process. There are decisions in picking a project. Whatever you pursue, there are choices along the way.

The capability to make and perform informed decisions by effectively utilizing your life knowledge, experience, sound judgment, thinking, instincts, feelings, and confidence:

Critical thinking needs self-control and self-examination. The rewards are great, like feeling free and the capability to finish projects, accomplish objectives and answer questions with self-confidence.

When you take charge of your mind by using critical thinking and make sound decisions, you organize your life.

Critical thinking is a skill. It will be enhanced by anybody willing to stretch and grow.

The brain acts like a muscle. If used properly, it grows. If it is avoided, it withers.

Examples of critical thinking:

A driver has to apply critical thinking when he or she is on the road. After asking a question such as What is the best path to my destination? the critical thinking process starts. First, the driver must reflect on the question and choose which route will get them to his or her location the fastest. After this, the driver must reach a particular solution (path) to the issues at hand. Last but not least, the outcome of the driver's critical thinking will be a strong plan to follow through with.

Choosing whether to go on another date with somebody also involves thinking critically. First of all, you have to choose whether another date will benefit you or not. You could think about the different outcomes that could happen, and assess the downsides versus the gains. Eventually, a decision will be made from your judgements, and a definite result will follow.

Critical thinking does, though, promote creativeness. The act of contemplating an idea, assessing that idea, and choosing a creative option is part of your child's progressing critical thinking abilities.

Being able to observe and assess - make a judgment and ultimately draw your conclusion, is part of the needed steps toward solving any issue. In order to do that, you must have the ability to plan ahead, evaluate what if scenarios, and choose which would be

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