Sunday, January 20, 2008

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking

The media today is able to feed the world what ever it is that they want us to believe. We only see what the media wants us to see of the world and there is so much more that we are missing. The truth about everything should be at our finger tips with all the right answers. But in today's world, we don't have that. We have every one's opinions about everything plastered all over the web and television that at the end we don't know what to believe any more. The idea of the paranormal is something that most people don't really care to talk about. Thinking about something that we cannot control and that is outside of this world can scare people, but its nice to know all the information about it before someone can judge it. Keeping an open mind about everything before making your decision can help the world with their close mindedness and allow something else other than the latest fashions or the newest car into thought.

The rules that were presented in James Lett's article were quite interesting because I have never really thought about them individually before. Knowing what I should use to present my evidence logically and pragmatically are interesting. I don't honestly think that I would ever use all six of them because in all honestly, everyone is going to have their own opinions about what ever it is that they are trying to prove. The one rule that stands out to me is the ability to have your evidence Falsifiable. Having evidence that will prove what you think wrong is something that is rarely ever used. No one wants something that will persuade minds against them, so I think that its important to have both sides of everything because that way you can make a logical choice.

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