Everyone thinks; it is our nature to do so. But much of our thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed, or downright prejudiced. If we want to think well, we must understand at least the rudiments of thought,...
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Intellectual Virtues
Elements of Thought
Eight basic structures are present in all thinking.Thinking generates purposes, raises questions, uses information, utilizes concepts, makes inferences, makes assumptions, generates implications, and embodies a point of view.Whenever we think, we think for a purpose within a point of view...
Intellectual Standards
Humans live in a world of thoughts. We accept some thoughts as true. We reject others as false. But the thoughts we perceive as true are sometimes false, unsound, or misleading.The mind doesn’t naturally grasp the truth. We don’t naturally...
Mindthink
The logic of why Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president.
This post analyzes the logic of the recent article in Atlantic, by Anne Applebaum, History Will Judge the Complicit Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president? The main purpose of this article is to analyze why people accept and conform to an ideology and...
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The Mindless Drone of the Broken Classroom
In a recent Edutopia article titled, Distance Learning Strategies to Bring Back to the Classroom, Sarah Cooper describes a few relevant strategies for bringing online instruction back to the physical classroom. However, I contend this is similar to putting a bandaid on a broken spine. If we continue to look at...
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