/lit/ - Literature

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>Creative & Critical Thinking - W. Edgar Moore
That's a meme book if I've ever heard one. Whoever recommended that book should be shot for not uploading it, because it's too rare to find on libgen or even in most libraries. It DOES seem like a good book with these topics:

Decision making -- The hypothetical syllogism -- Reliability and probability -- Evaluating evidence -- Forming hypotheses -- Testing hypotheses -- Generalizations -- Statistical concepts -- Statistics and probability -- Reasoning from generalizations -- Forming causal theories -- Testing causal theories -- Evaluation and decision -- Value judgments -- Creative thinking -- Fallacies of irrelevance -- Neglected aspect -- Pitfalls in language -- Classification and definition -- Categorical propositions -- Immediate inference -- Categorical syllogisms -- Alternative and disjunctive syllogisms -- Interpreting propositions -- Involved arguments -- Complex syllogistic forms -- Need-directed thinking -- The personal point of view -- How we distort the evidence -- Emotions and thinking -- Hidden propositions -- Psychological pitfalls -- False assumptions -- Devices of persuasion -- Refining value systems.

It's a shame that an old-fashioned, hardcore textbook on critical thinking has been superseded by mass-produced textbook mill crap designed to dull the mind and not sharpen it. It's a shame, too, because we could do more to promote critical thinking skills besides throwing good books and problems at people and hoping by luck of the draw, whether it be genetics, experience, or mood, that they figure it out and learn to think for themselves.