What is critical thinking?

geo · Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:33 am


	Thomas Hood wrote: I will not accept your bizarre claims to superior thinking on faith.

Okay then! :smile:

Out of curiosity, Thomas, what are your thoughts on evolution? I'm just curious and you don't have to respond if you don't want to.

Chris OConnor · Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:49 am

And how about the age of the universe and especially our planet? No need to be specific - just tell me if you are thinking in the thousands or billions of years please.

Frank 013 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:56 am


	Quote: TH Nonsense. I have studied context theory, and you haven't, and God save me from critical thinking!

If that was not critical thinking what would you call it?

Magic?


	Quote: TH I also have the same bad feeling (baloney detector response) about critical thinking that I had about "pasifier." None of you so-called critical thinkers have credentials in critical thinking.

And as I said, intuition is dodgy at best… in this case you clearly have it wrong… your claims are almost entirely false… your opinions angry and demonizing… you demand answers to your questions, yet answer none of ours… and you only accept the data that supports your twisted view.

You are not looking at the data fairly and you certainly are not applying the same intellectual humility and intellectual honesty that you did when you researched pacifier.


	Quote: TH None of you have specified critical thinking courses taken or critical thinking books read. I know more about critical thinking than the lot of you put together because I have at least look up and read a few webpages on critical thinking.

Can you hear yourself Thomas?

We use critical thinking but we do not know what it is?

That is stupid beyond even what I expect from you… and how do you suddenly know what courses and research we have done?

Critical thinking is taught in school you know…

And I am sorry, but looking at a few web-pages does not automatically make you "the Grand Pooh-Baa" of critical thinking.


	Quote: TH So put up or shut up. Give me the sources your knowledge of critical thinking or go do some reading. I will not accept your bizarre claims to superior thinking on faith.

We have put up… there are a great many definitions of critical thinking on this thread 6 of which I gave you myself, most were from respected people in that field of study.

You asked for real world examples of critical thinking, Johnsosn1010 provided one, which you blatantly and wrongly denied, then you provided one, (Thanks again) which you also wrongly deny we have given you everything you asked for and more, yet you still defy reason.

Here it the truth of the matter… you will not accept our claims.

I suspect that that is because critical thinking threatens your faith. Therefore like many of the faithful before you, you are on a crusade to destroy anything that threatens it, and like those religious executioners of the past your faith is blinding you to reason


	Quote: TH Critical thinking is a pseudoscience, even if taught at Berkeley

You are acting like a cornered skunk… spraying toxic stink at everything that you find threatening.

Yet even with a scatter shot you still are off the mark… critical thinking is not a science… it resembles the thinking tools used in science… nothing more.

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	Quote: . . . I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Matt. 11:25

TH
May God have mercy on your critical thinking souls.

And you ended with a bible verse… and with a not very subtle threat to our eternal salvation… that in itself is very telling… but not very convincing.

Later

Suzanne · Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:57 am

Johnson1010 wrote:


	Quote: I thank you for the pure entertainment value of that last post!

Suzanne · Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:05 am

Frank wrote:


	Quote: You are acting like a cornered skunk… spraying toxic stink at everything that you find threatening.

Thomas Hood · Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:16 am

Thomas Hood wrote:


	Frank 013 wrote: Don’t be silly Thomas… Look at the context... was your feeling about something, did something feel wrong? . . . . Your exploration into misspelled words was critical thinking based off of an intuitive feeling.

Nonsense. I have studied context theory, and you haven't, and God save me from critical thinking!

I also have the same bad feeling (baloney detector response) about critical thinking that I had about "pasifier." None of you so-called critical thinkers have credentials in critical thinking. None of you have specified critical thinking courses taken or critical thinking books read. I know more about critical thinking than the lot of you put together because I have at least look up and read a few webpages on critical thinking. So put up or shut up. Give me the sources of your knowledge of critical thinking or go do some reading. I will not accept your bizarre claims to superior thinking on faith.

Critical thinking is a pseudoscience, even if taught at Berkeley. General Semantics is taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I found it in a niece's textbook six years ago. My late cousin Ernon Sidaway studied General Semantics in law school at the University of Florida in Gainsville. Cow1 is not cow2, etc.


	Quote: . . . I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Matt. 11:25

May God have mercy on your critical thinking souls.

Tom

Thomas Hood · Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:27 am


	Frank 013 wrote: We use critical thinking but we do not know what it is?

Of course, same as if your were practice Reiki.


	Quote: Critical thinking is taught in school you know…

So which of you studied it in school? Are these secret schools? Please tell.

Tom

Frank 013 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:29 am

I am curious Thomas… Do you think that repeating your post makes your point better?

Because it really doesn’t.

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Frank 013 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:37 am


	Quote: TH So which of you studied it in school? Are these secret schools? Please tell.

Thomas… I could tell you that I studied critical thinking in college psychology and that we touched on it in humanities class… And that I have studied because of its remarkable use against religious claims... oh and that I have seen some web pages about critical thinking too…

But you already admitted that you will not accept my claims.

So speaking to you is pointless.

Later

Thomas Hood · Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:39 am

Suzanne wrote:

Frank wrote:


	Quote: You are acting like a cornered skunk… spraying toxic stink at everything that you find threatening.

We are all stinkers in the sight of God, but why haven't you read any of your aunt's books on critical thinking, her speciality? I hope Eileen sees this and asks you about it. How embarrassed you must now be! Probably she has given you copies of her books, and you put them in the attic. So when family comes home, send somebody up there to get them. And then I hope you do read her books and tell me about them.

Tom

Frank 013 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:42 am


	Quote: TH So which of you studied it in school? Are these secret schools? Please tell.

I almost forgot… we had critical thinking lessons in Law enforcement training… especially the part about evidence retrieval and objective analysis.

Later

Frank 013 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:48 am


	Quote: TH We are all stinkers in the sight of God

Tell me Thomas is that something that Confucius would say?


	Quote: TH why haven't you read any of your aunt's books on critical thinking, her speciality? I hope Eileen sees this and asks you about it. How embarrassed you must now be!

Now that is an Ad hominem attack!

Later

Thomas Hood · Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:50 am

Frank 013 wrote:


	Quote: TH So which of you studied it in school? Are these secret schools? Please tell.

Thomas… I could tell you that I studied critical thinking in college psychology and that we touched on it in humanities class… And that I have studied because of its remarkable use against religious claims... oh and that I have seen some web pages about critical thinking too…

But you already admitted that you will not accept my claims.

So speaking to you is pointless.

Later

You could tell me, Frank, but are you or are you not telling me that you "studied critical thinking in college psychology"? Could you be more specific about what you studied? Was it in a textbook or just thrown in by the teacher while talking? I want details, and I will consider your claims provided you document then. Why has it been so hard to get this little bit from you?

Tom

Chris OConnor · Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:58 am


	Quote: None of you have specified critical thinking courses taken or critical thinking books read. I know more about critical thinking than the lot of you put together because I have at least look up and read a few webpages on critical thinking.

I've taken Critical Thinking 101 at University of South Florida and received an A grade. I've taken many other college courses related to the art of clear thinking. I'm also a member of CSICOP and local Skeptics organizations that teach and test critical thinking skills. I'm also a member of American Mensa and Tampa Bay Mensa and scored a 167 on the logical component of a standardized IQ test. This is the critical thinking section, Thomas. I've read dozens of books on the subject from Hy Ruchlis's "Clear Thinking" to Anthony Flew's "How to Think Straight" to Nicholas Capaldi's "The Art of Deception." These books are right here on the shelf in front of me. Welcome to BookTalk.org. This is one of the topics we discuss here.

But why are you even bringing up formal education? You clearly lack it. What really matters is that literally 100% of the people in this thread are making logical sense OTHER THAN YOU. You don't need to take critical thinking courses in order to think critically, clearly and effectively. You need to appreciate honestly, truth and personal integrity.


	Quote: I know more about critical thinking than the lot of you put together...

Not true.

Thomas Hood · Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:02 pm

Frank 013 wrote:


	Quote: TH We are all stinkers in the sight of God

Tell me Thomas is that something that Confucius would say?

Confucius was conscious of evil and tried to reduce it. However, I follow the scholar Yang Xiong who said that human nature is a mixture of good and evil.


	Quote: TH why haven't you read any of your aunt's books on critical thinking, her speciality? I hope Eileen sees this and asks you about it. How embarrassed you must now be!

Now that is an Ad hominem attack!

Later[/quote]

It wiil, I hope, motive Suzanne to read her aunt's books if she has them. I am not attacking Suzanne's character or motives, and, too, I do not know that she has the books.

Tom

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