PHIL 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter Intro: Critical Thinking, Numeracy, Blurry
19 Oct 2018
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Clear thinking in blurry word by tim kenyon. Goals and methods of critical thinking : critical thinking as a filter acting to prevent bad arguments from getting inside our heads. The world: repository of facts, some truth-tellers, some stupid people, and some liars. Me: sometimes seeker of reasonable beliefs, with tendencies to exaggerate, to mislead, to value ideology over accuracy, to be confused, and to be simultaneously over-confident and under-informed. The world: filled with other people much like me. (and a few stupid people and liars. ) Critical thinking: the cognitive habit of paying attention to these tendencies in myself and others, and actively seeking to minimize them.
