An Introduction to Critical Thinking Section 1: Introduction [Note: this is an evolving document which I intend to update and improve upon periodically. Feel free to use the contact page to send me input or criticisms.] “The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators … They are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence, uninfluenced by the emphasis or confidence with which assertions are made on one side or the other. They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices and all kinds of cajolery. Education in the critical faculty is the only education of which it can be truly said that it makes good citizens.” ― William Graham Sumner Critical thinking, simply put, is a disciplined way of thinking that atte...
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