Comments on: Critical thinking http://www.amerika.org/politics/critical-thinking/ New Right, Conservationist, Traditionalist, Deep Ecology and Conservative Thought: Conservation Conservatism (Crunchy Paleoconservatism) Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:01:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: B http://www.amerika.org/politics/critical-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-540 B Mon, 11 May 2009 23:00:56 +0000 http://www.amerika.org/?p=2641#comment-540 "Idiots will try to cling to absolutes, much like they cling to logical fallacies, because they think that memorizing something makes them the super-genius." You fell of the ledge a little bit with that paragraph compared to your well thought out definition of critical thinking. It makes me wonder what the difference is between clinging to logic and questioning causes. Where in the human arena does logic safely begin? Is it believing that logic is a superior method of deducting truth when any particular thing can be viewed in any number of ways? Is it the belief that the world is objectively definable apart from our our subjective human perceptions? “Idiots will try to cling to absolutes, much like they cling to logical fallacies, because they think that memorizing something makes them the super-genius.”

You fell of the ledge a little bit with that paragraph compared to your well thought out definition of critical thinking. It makes me wonder what the difference is between clinging to logic and questioning causes. Where in the human arena does logic safely begin? Is it believing that logic is a superior method of deducting truth when any particular thing can be viewed in any number of ways? Is it the belief that the world is objectively definable apart from our our subjective human perceptions?

]]> By: Introduction to philosophy – AMERIKA http://www.amerika.org/politics/critical-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-539 Introduction to philosophy – AMERIKA Mon, 11 May 2009 16:09:44 +0000 http://www.amerika.org/?p=2641#comment-539 [...] that to discover the way of thinking that is philosophy, they will need a good background in critical thinking, debate, logical analysis, literary theory and some psychology. Luckily, you can learn all of those [...] [...] that to discover the way of thinking that is philosophy, they will need a good background in critical thinking, debate, logical analysis, literary theory and some psychology. Luckily, you can learn all of those [...]

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