Becoming a Critical Thinker - A Guide for the New Millennium

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Summary: Being critical.
Review: Fact that the book is written in a language requires most critical examination. Legally English is axiomatic.
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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: I have read this book and combed through it many times because of the many gold nuggets of information. Dr. Carroll writes an execellent book teaching you to think critically by educating you to decipher the difference between logical thought and non sense, tricky language, bias, selective thinking, and much more.

Dr. Carroll covers diagramming complex arguements, syllogisms, common fallacies such as begging the question, slippery slope, the gamblers fallacy, ad hominem, poison the well, irrelevant appeal to authority, ad poplum and much more.

Dr. Carroll also covers a great section on science and pseudoscience which teaches you to determine what is actually scientific or someone's dream of wishful thinking that one just won't let go, such as parapsychology.

The book starts you out with basics and then gradually introduces more material into the topic. In each chapter there are excercises to pratice your new learned skills. There are answers in the back of the book for those marked questions to see if you got the answers right.

A must buy for those seeking clarity of thought.