Critical Thinking and Autodidactism Thread: Strategies for a respected GLPer.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

~ Bertrand Russell


I decided to this thread not because I have any `Breaking News` or something exciting to say but because I believe in what can be accomplished with these discussions. The resources are clearly available, the GLPer. The more organized and mature we become the greater respect we will receive from the non-GLPer. We need these "others" positioning to form a whole picture for our own contemplations. We should not mistake "respect" for "cooperation" or "friendship", not everyone can be our friend but if we play by their rules(lacking emotion)they must accept us as players in their game.

Please add any rules, tools, or attitudes that can assist the average GLP truth-seeker, like myself, to better use the minds energy and time to produce results that will be directly tied to this movement.

Educate yourself!
OR
Fake it until you make it and when on top rewrite it!

Slow to arrive and quick to stay.

Your GLP newcomer,

IMU


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Critical thinking calls for the ability to:

*Recognize problems, to find workable means for meeting those problems

*Understand the importance of prioritization and order of precedence in problem solving

*Gather and marshal pertinent (relevant) information

*Recognize unstated assumptions and values

*Comprehend and use language with accuracy, clarity, and discernment

*Interpret data, to appraise evidence and evaluate arguments

*Recognize the existence (or non-existence) of logical relationships between propositions

*Draw warranted conclusions and generalizations

*Put to test the conclusions and generalizations at which one arrives

*Reconstruct one's patterns of beliefs on the basis of wider experience

*Render accurate judgments about specific things and qualities in everyday life


In sum:

"A persistent effort to examine any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the evidence that supports it and the further conclusions to which it tends."[11]

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

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Take a critical thinking multiple choice quiz.

[link to www.thekjs.essex.sch.uk]

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Lighten the read with George Carlin on ``critical thinking``

[liveleak] [link to www.livevideo.com]


-IMU