Martin Cohen

Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies

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  • Aidoshas quoted8 years ago
    The one primary and fundamental law of mental action consists in a tendency to generalisation.
  • Aidoshas quoted8 years ago
    Ordering your thinking: Reason, analyse and then argue
  • Aidoshas quoted8 years ago
    If you're building a Critical Thinker, à la Dr Frankenstein, here are the abilities and attributes you need:
    Tolerance: Critical Thinkers delight in hearing divergent views, and enjoy a real debate.
    Analytical skills: Critical Thinkers don't accept just any kind of talking. They want properly constructed arguments that present reasons and draw sound conclusions.
    Confidence: Critical Thinkers have to be a little bit confident to be able to examine views that others present — often people in authority.
    Curiosity: Critical Thinkers need curiosity. It may have killed the cat, but curiosity is the essential ingredient for ideas and insights.
    Truth-seeking: Critical Thinkers are on mission ‘objective truth’ — even if it turns out to undermine their own previously held convictions and long-cherished beliefs and is flat against their self-interest.
  • Aidoshas quoted8 years ago
    Critical Thinking is really about a range of skills and understandings, including an ability to play with words, a sensitivity to context, feelings and emotions, and (the hardest skill to develop) the kind of open-mindedness that allows you to make creative leaps and gain insights
  • Aidoshas quoted8 years ago
    open-mindedness that allows you to make creative leaps and gain insights.
  • Aidoshas quoted8 years ago
    This exercise reveals that people's normal mode of thinking is bound within the parameters of certain rules and systems — due to thousands of years of evolution. In the jargon of psychology, human thinking uses certain heuristics (mental shortcuts for solving problems and making judgements quickly).
  • Aidoshas quoted8 years ago
    Critical Thinking is your insurance policy against these dodgy, but more or less universal, thinking habits.
  • Aidoshas quoted8 years ago
    the ways in which people arrive at their views and ideas.
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