Asking the right questions
by M. Neil Browne, Stuart Keeley, Stuart M. Keeley, Neil Browne · first published 1981
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This updated text helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches how to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject. --from publisher descriptioin.
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…Read a Book by Mortimer Adler The Book of Fallacies by Jeremy Bentham (alternatively, I enjoyed Logically Fallacious by Bo Bennet, and it fills the same niche) Trust Me - I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday Asking the Right Questions by Browne, Keil I hope that was helpful! Enjoy
on “Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly booming” ↗…company attacks on anything that threatens the oil industry. If you're not getting paid by them, you're being suckered. Aside from the reference I gave, you would also benefit from reading books like "Asking the Right Questions", by Neil Browne & Stuart Keeley; Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World"; and "Thinking and Deciding" by Jonathan Baron. These will help you distinguish between rational thinking and rationalizations.…
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