Here are the 3 R's of good thinking:
REALITY...thinking deals with what is...it is intended to fundamentally answer the following questions" Is it real? What is it?
RELEVANCE...thinking about something should entail only matters that relate to, and affect or are affected by, what is being thought about.
RATIONALITY...requiring sensory proof as a condition to accepting that something is true, and avoiding the following common thinking errors:
* blurring the distinction between proven knowledge and unproven belief
* basing truth on mere assumptions
* using analogies as proof
* failing to recognize that we live in a cause and effect world, that everything that happens is the effect of some cause, or mistakenly believing that the fact that B followed A is proof that A caused B to happen
* generalizing from a sampling
* attacking the arguer rather than the argunent
* believing that was is true of the whole is necessarily true of the parts, and vice versa.
Good thinking is rooted in precision, exactitude, definiteness. What is it? What did he say? What did she mean? It offers the joy of reliability, confidence, certainty.
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