What is critical thinking?

[Chris OConnor]

You are the only one here to admit to reading a book on critical thinking and having a course in it

I don't count?

[Frank 013]

I guess I don't count either...

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[Thomas Hood]

You are the only one here to admit to reading a book on critical thinking and having a course in it

I don't count?

What book? What course? When? Why haven't you already told us about it?!!!

[Chris OConnor]

Come on, Thomas. You've got to be kidding. Scroll up.

[Chris OConnor]

I'll repost it so you don't have to search for it...

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None of you have specified critical thinking courses taken or critical thinking books read. I know more about critical thinking than the lot of you put together because I have at least look up and read a few webpages on critical thinking.

I've taken Critical Thinking 101 at University of South Florida and received an A grade. I've taken many other college courses related to the art of clear thinking. I'm also a member of CSICOP and local Skeptics organizations that teach and test critical thinking skills. I'm also a member of American Mensa and Tampa Bay Mensa and scored a 167 on the logical component of a standardized IQ test. This is the critical thinking section, Thomas. I've read dozens of books on the subject from Hy Ruchlis's "Clear Thinking" to Anthony Flew's "How to Think Straight" to Nicholas Capaldi's "The Art of Deception." These books are right here on the shelf in front of me. Welcome to BookTalk.org. This is one of the topics we discuss here.

But why are you even bringing up formal education? You clearly lack it. What really matters is that literally 100% of the people in this thread are making logical sense OTHER THAN YOU. You don't need to take critical thinking courses in order to think critically, clearly and effectively. You need to appreciate honestly, truth and personal integrity.

I know more about critical thinking than the lot of you put together...

Not true.

[Thomas Hood]

I guess I don't count either...

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You count, Frank. You just don't remember, and won't say what you do remember without waterboarding.

[Frank 013]

TH
Confucius was conscious of evil and tried to reduce it. However, I follow the scholar Yang Xiong who said that human nature is a mixture of good and evil.

And this translates into god thinking that we stink how?

TH
why haven't you read any of your aunt's books on critical thinking, her speciality? I hope Eileen sees this and asks you about it. How embarrassed you must now be!

TH
It wiil, I hope, motive Suzanne to read her aunt's books if she has them. I am not attacking Suzanne's character or motives, and, too, I do not know that she has the books.

I might accept that except for the “embarrassed” remark… you clearly intended to evoke guilt with it.

That was a rather juvenile and spiteful thing to say.

TH
You count, Frank. You just don't remember, and won't say what you do remember without waterboarding.

I told you why I think it is pointless to talk about it… but if you must see it, what I have said to date is what I remember… just look back through my posts and you will see it.

One thing I do remember clearly was the point that everyone thinks critically from time to time… they just don’t generally do it consciously unless trained.

Just as you did when researching the word pacifier.

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[Thomas Hood]

I'll repost it so you don't have to search for it...

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None of you have specified critical thinking courses taken or critical thinking books read. I know more about critical thinking than the lot of you put together because I have at least look up and read a few webpages on critical thinking.

I've taken Critical Thinking 101 at University of South Florida and received an A grade. I've taken many other college courses related to the art of clear thinking. I'm also a member of CSICOP and local Skeptics organizations that teach and test critical thinking skills. I'm also a member of American Mensa and Tampa Bay Mensa and scored a 167 on the logical component of a standardized IQ test. This is the critical thinking section, Thomas. I've read dozens of books on the subject from Hy Ruchlis's "Clear Thinking" to Anthony Flew's "How to Think Straight" to Nicholas Capaldi's "The Art of Deception." These books are right here on the shelf in front of me. Welcome to BookTalk.org. This is one of the topics we discuss here.

But why are you even bringing up formal education? You clearly lack it. What really matters is that literally 100% of the people in this thread are making logical sense OTHER THAN YOU. You don't need to take critical thinking courses in order to think critically, clearly and effectively. You need to appreciate honestly, truth and personal integrity.

I know more about critical thinking than the lot of you put together...

Not true.

You've been holding back, haven't you, Chris? Now is that the "honestly, truth and personal integrity" that you believe to be the essence of critical thinking?

[Chris OConnor]

Holding back what?

[Frank 013]

TH
You've been holding back, haven't you, Chris?

Thomas we have all been holding back… trying to give you some semblance of respect, even though your ideas and posts about critical thinking are moronic at best.

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