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on 2006-03-31 by krissanthesquad

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Argument Mapping Tutorials.  Six online tutorials in argument mapping, a core requirement for advanced critical thinking.

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Reason!Able - Software enhances reasoning, argument and critical thinking. Download a trial version (5 mb)

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  • The Skeptic's Dictionary - over 400 definitions and essays

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  • The Fallacy Files by Gary Curtis. Best website on fallacies.

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  • Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts by Peter Facione. Best overview I know of the nature of critical thinking. (pdf file)

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    Baloney Detection Part 1 and Part 2 - by Michael Shermer. 10 step guide.

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  • Chance - best resource for helping students think critically about issues involving probability and statistics

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    For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things … and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture.

    A shorter version is the art of being right.

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    ; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is ol

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    skillful application of a repertoire of validated general techniques for deciding the level of confidence you should have in a proposition in the light of the available evidence.   

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