Critical Thinker

Claims and Warrants

 

 

 

Ethos, Pathos, Logos

 

 

Thinker's Guide to Fallacies

Here's a good logical fallacy primer, The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation.

Here's a list of fallacies from the Nizkor Project.

Another list from The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe.

Another list from University of North Carolina.

Another list from the Philosophical Society.

Rhetological fallacies

 

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I just bought this book on Amazon for my Kindle and then I realized it's available free online in PDF. So much for my critical thinking skills.

Commas, Colons, Semicolons

 

Straw Man, Red Herring, and Ad Hominem Logical Fallacies

   

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Sympathetic Critique of Michele Alexander's The New Jim Crow

In a Yale Law PDF. 

Counterargument and Refutation Essay Structure Example

 

Mesa College has a good counteragument essay structure example and explanation. 

 

While opponents of my subject make some good points against my position, they are in the larger sense wrong when we consider that they fail to see and interpret correctly ____________, ______________, _______________, and _______________.

While Author X is guilty of several weaknesses as described by her opponents, her agument holds up to close examination in the areas of _________________, ______________, _____________, and ______________. 

Even though author X shows weakness in her agument, such as __________ and ____________, she is nevertheless convincing because . . . 

While author X makes many compelling points, her overall argument collapses under the weight of __________, ___________, ___________, and ______________. 

Mesa College has a good counteragument essay structure example and explanation. 

 

While opponents of my subject make some good points against my position, they are in the larger sense wrong when we consider that they fail to see and interpret correctly ____________, ______________, _______________, and _______________.

While Author X is guilty of several weaknesses as described by her opponents, her agument holds up to close examination in the areas of _________________, ______________, _____________, and ______________. 

Even though author X shows weakness in her agument, such as __________ and ____________, she is nevertheless convincing because . . . 

While author X makes many compelling points, her overall argument collapses under the weight of __________, ___________, ___________, and ______________.