The Thinking Toolbox

$22.00 -- Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills

Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn

This book is like a toolbox, full of different kinds of tools you can use for different thinking tasks. Just as you use the wrench in a regular tool box to fix the sink, so you can use the tools you are given in this book to solve thinking problems. For ages 12 and up.

Features

Fun to use - not dry like a math textbook
Can be used after or before The Fallacy Detective
Introductory - teaches skills you can use right away
Self-teaching format
For ages twelve and older
Over 60 cartoon illustrations by Richard LaPierre

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book
Tools for Thinking
A Thinking Tool
A Discussion, a Disagreement, an Argument, and a Fight
When It Is Dumb to Argue
Fact, Inference, or Opinion
Finding the Premises and Conclusion
How to List Reasons Why You Believe Something
How to Defeat Your Own Argument
When Not to Use Logic
Tools for Opposing Viewpoints
Using the Opposing Viewpoints Chart
Opposing Viewpoints Are Everywhere
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Evidence
You Can't Believe Everything You Hear
Are You Primary or Secondary?
Who Has a Reason to Lie?
Corroborating Evidence
Mystery of the Stolen Manoot
Stir Plot until Thickened
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Does a Possibly Make a Probably?
Circumstantial Evidence
Puzzling Developments
Tools for Science
Mole the Scientist
Tools that Help Scientists Do Their Job
How to Be a Keen Observer
Brainstorming
Hypothesis Is a Huge Word
How to Prove You Are Wrong
A Good Experiment
How to Analyze Data
Listen and Learn
Pseudoscience
A Little Project
Projects
"Herbal the Verbal Gerbil" Game
The Mystery of the Large Letter Library
Answer Key

ISBN: 9780974531519

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