Critical Thinking For Complex Issues: How To Tell Fact From Fiction, Discover The Truth, And Build Wise Arguments

by Thinknetic

Are you tired of being manipulated by fake news and false arguments?Arm yourself with the ultimate weapon - critical thinking.

Critical Thinking For Complex Issues is your guide to cutting through the noise and discovering the truth.

Learn how to spot logical fallacies, overcome confirmation bias, and analyze arguments objectively.

Case studies and examples throughout show you how to apply these powerful skills in real life.

Master the art of Socratic questioning to get to the heart of any issue.

Build rock-solid arguments based on logic and evidence.

Develop the wisdom to guide yourself and others toward the truth.

Critical Thinking For Complex Issues is your essential toolkit for clear thinking in the modern world.

This book bundle

The Critical Thinking Uncover The Secrets Of Thinking Critically And Telling Fact From FictionThe Socratic Way Of How To Use Socrates' Method To Discover The Truth And Argue WiselyHow To Argue With Expand The Boundaries Of Your Thinking Through Resolving Conflicts Based On Reason And Empathy
You're going to love this book because it's not just another dry theoretical guide. It's packed with practical exercises and real-world examples, making it easy to apply critical thinking in your everyday life.

Get it today and start seeing through the lies!

Genres: Philosophy

326 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 30, 2024

Reviews

[Alan Johnson]

This book has some good points, but other of its statements are plainly incorrect. I cite examples (among others) below. The referenced page numbers are to the Kindle edition.

First, the book fails to apply critical thinking to the doctrine of postmodernism. It is impressed with the postmodern view that “there is no objective truth” (95). “Keep the postmodernist view in mind: perhaps we can never know the truth, and perhaps meaning is completely relative. If that is the case, many things are possible” (99). My response: As postmodern ideology has manifested itself in the early twenty-first century, one of its principal teachings is that reason and evidence are inventions of the Western, White, straight, male patriarchy and, as such, are to be rejected or minimized. (See the discussion at Alan E. Johnson, Reason and Human Ethics [Pittsburgh, PA: Philosophia, 2022], 121–23, Kindle.) If this postmodern principle is correct, then critical thinking itself must be rejected or minimized as the invention of the Western, White, straight, male patriarchy, and this subject book on critical thinking must therefore be rejected or minimized as being the invention of the Western, White, straight, male patriarchy. More generally, if relativism is true and there is no objective truth, then this book should be rejected on the ground that critical thinking—including this book on critical thinking—is merely the author’s subjective, personal opinion. The premise of relativism—and its application to this book on critical thinking—is self-contradictory (Johnson, Reason and Human Ethics, 1–5).

Second, this book starts a sentence on page 108 as follows: “In 1782, during the US Civil War, Benjamin Franklin . . . .” (emphasis added). The U.S. Civil war occurred from 1861 to 1865—many decades after Benjamin Franklin’s death in 1790.

Third, on page 187, the book states that the following deductive syllogism is valid.

All fruits have seeds inside them.
Cucumber has the seeds inside.
Therefore, cucumber is a fruit.

This is obviously not a valid syllogism. The premise “all fruits have seeds inside of them” does not logically exclude the possibility that there may be living things other than fruits that also have seeds inside them. If the premise had been “only fruits have seeds inside them,” the syllogism would have been valid from a logical point of view. But that’s not the way the book framed the syllogism.

At this point in the book (page 187 of 436 Kindle pages), I gave up and marked the book as “partially read.”

[Trixie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found the ideas in the book very useful, and the examples presented illustrate what the author is trying to convey, making the concept clearer.

As I delved into the book, I couldn’t help but notice the overlap with my own professional practices. It was a reassuring realization that I am already implementing some of the concepts discussed here in my job. I have a lot more to learn, and this book provided a lot of information that needs deep thought and practice.

[Jon Tav · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most important tools we have and is not used by all. Critical Thinking.