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Critical Thinking What is it to think well? We might begin be trying to articulate the aims of thinking well. In science and philosophy the aims are clear understanding and well supported belief. Thinking well in realms of inquiry aims at knowledge and understanding. So here we want to identify what sorts of reasoning clarifies our understanding and justifies our beliefs. A reason for believing something can be formulated as an argument, a set of claims including premises that support a conclusion. Some arguments support their conclusions better than others, so thinking well requires methods for evaluating arguments. The links below start with the basic methods for evaluating arguments on the left. More thoughts on critical thinking can be found on the right |
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A Quartet of Hypothetical Syllogisms
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