Critical Thinking - Standards of Thought - Part 2

[bossscrillaguy]

Isn't that the purpose? He isn't teaching anything new, he's teaching you to be conscious & mindful to the aspects of critical thinking. Some people are unaware they are critical thinkers & seek terminology to aid them in deeper understanding of this field of thinking.

[BeachBallEffect]

Does my butt look big in this jeans honey?. No, you look beautiful.

[kd7one]

@BeachBallEffect It's nit the jeans that make you fat.........It's the fat that makes you fat

[EdgePitSwing]

I have to say, this shit is common sense...

[cuzifeelikeit]

@EdgePitSwing or uncommon sense

[juanfracisco]

He just give the sansation of exactitud given rules of verbalization. Well, there is other human tradition that do just the same thing: RELIGION.

[juanfracisco]

Human communication is not rational. That´s the hole point why phyloshofy went wrong. Language is not learned and do not use intellectual standarts to be significant. Human behavior responds to incentives and motives of cooperation and competion, and not to rational standarts of what phylosofers call thinking. . He doesn´t explain why humans sometimes don´t agree, netheir, why language is ussualy used not to tell the truth. Phylosophical explains are just rules, not explanations.

[juanfracisco]

I´m psychologist, and I know a little bit about thinking. What the phylosofical guru is doing is simple: He gave really simple and predictible ideas that all kind of people has and try to imprese with the efect that only smart people have it. He´s not critical, not at all. He´s simple selling ideas that everyone has, but with a speech and an order that made them look clever. He´s not to diferent of any publicist, but publicist are not cinical. These are speeches for people with a weak mind.

[MartialArtsMaster]

@juanfracisco

You're demonstrating Richard Paul's point, that we angrily attack ideas we don't like instead of rationally critiquing their bad points, or even admitting that they might have something new to teach us. All you do is insult Richard Paul and call his speeches for the weak-minded, while giving no substance as to why you think that to be the case.

Are you upset because you're a psychologist and approach things narrowly, while Paul draws from multiple fields?

[Paseosinperro]

great talk

[juanfracisco]

This is the kind of ideas that looks inteligent, but they are really stupid.

[Paseosinperro]

@juanfracisco ¿why do say thay are stupit? I find them interesting and useful

[MartialArtsMaster]

@juanfracisco

Do you actually have a reason to say that, based on purposes, questions, information, inferences, implications, etc.? Or are you just angry because his ideas don't conform to yours?

[BlueEyedDoll777]

Dr. Richard Paul is more than a genius for he teaches concrete wisdom and real-life learnings. God Bless Him More! ^_^

[Hythloday71]

Relavency is of major importance, many fallacies here, much time could have been spent here. Problematic for me is the imbetween or grading of relavency. Many times i want to point to relavency, or do should i say, but the point is defended successfully by demonstrating 'some' relavency - but then the point is lost because i need to adapt that given the foot print of inflluence, it isn't relavent enought to introduce at this stage - any thoughts ?

[samuidave]

Dr Paul's cite of H.L. Mencken, which he used to clarify the issue of complexity with regard to critical thinking, was most likely a rephrasing of what Mencken actually said:

"There is always an easy solution to every human problem--neat,

plausible, and wrong."

It appeared in the essay "The Divine Afflatus," originally published

in 1917, and reprinted in 1920 and 1949.

A little irony, perhaps ;)

[vincecoulter]

Thanks so much for sharing this video that has help me think better

[LoopuleasaIonut]

My mind was blown away. Now I am peeking the pieces up and rearranging them.

[TheMrMLimbo]

... many thanks.

[cexino]

Dr. Richard Paul is awesome

[krustyegg]

Excellent lectures!

It is a very sad fact that what is being discussed is the basic ABC of thinking, and vital for everyone to learn. Children should be learning this from around age 7 onwards. Nevertheless it is quite clear that it threatens certain establish interests, both, within us and without. So we drag on with broken and faulty thinking as the norm.

Still I fully support this endavour, determined myself to help people improve their thinking; Its the only way to a better society.

[darnell1897]

Man, why was I never taught this stuff in school?

[cexino]

@darnell1897 Exactly the problem I realised as well. We need to teach this stuff very early on to people - this is a foundation that many people lack and so that's where most problems result from.

[purewilderness]

'Just say NO!' lololol

[ManicEightBall]

All the time I hear people saying "I'm 98.5% certain that..." an I know they must have made that answer up. Whenever people add statistics to their arguments, I think it's important to listen carefully and critically.

[wayne2166]

Deep but could be simple if you're used to thinking...

[Wolverine9mm]

good video.

[chingon711]

Very revelant and valuable information which people if applied effectively will live much happier lives....Nothing like receiving a straightfoward, detailed answer to a difficult question.

[crazy87jim]

Don't be impressed by precision, got it

[JaysThoughts]

@crazy87jim Or more like.. precision and accuracy are not the same thing. =)

[Shadowslamer]

If you are in the Marine Corps you could easily say no because of pier pressure.  As long as you could get someone to feel sorry for you and you are depressed because of certain things that you have had in your life then the emotional factor would make it more and more difficult to just say no. Emotion makes things complicated when almost everything has a scientific answer.

[Shadowslamer]

When I say scientific I mean psychology social science.

[yadayada420]

ok ill hold you to it pipsqueak

[yadayada420]

right-on like road-head!!!

[crazy87jim]

Pier pressure can be a bitch. Every time I go down the docks I feel pressurised.

[Shadowslamer]

Have to make fun of other people because of your own inadequacies, so that you can feel better about yourself, but you might look cool to the more uneducted person somone with above aveage intelligence can see how transparent you are, and reach the conclusion that you defective.

[MartialArtsMaster]

@Shadowslamer

What? What does that have to do with Richard Paul's actual argument? You're just demonstrating your own egotism by angrily attacking ideas and calling others pretentious instead of summarizing their arguments first and then calmly explaining why you believe those ideas are misguided.

[jaimesandoval1988]

Very very good information!

[yadayada420]

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[jaimesandoval1988]

I guess, take it as you please.

[elrondx]

lol.. they teach this in basic physics..

[sisuo2]

complex questions can sometimes be answered with simple answers. The relationship between question and answer is not evaluated by its complexity but rather its efficiency, however extreme cases should be excluded in this case. Just like finding formula in math, the process of finding this formula may be complex but the solution(the formula) can be relatively simple and efficient.

[waketherabble]

Agreed.

The complexity of the process by which the answer is obtained is seperate from and perhaps irrelevant to the answer sought.

[TheD2D21]

I digress, because even though you may arrive at an answer by using the formula, you must still be able to interpret that answer (complexity); otherwise, the answer is worthless if you don't know what it means, if you don't know how to interpret it.

[amoxtlacatl]

Absolutely marvelous.

[johnmisanthropeadams]

This man is Jesus.

[PursuitOfReality]

thanks