Critical-Thinking can save you money: what the goverement don't want you to know!

Critical-thinking, a subject that is over looked and can help in every accept of your life even if your watching your favorite t.v. show!!

how? easy if you are watching a show and are just enjoying it witch your right brain then your not taking in the full contant but if you watch it and ask yourself questions like "why is the character doing this?" or " what was the writer trying to say if anything?" etc you'll get more out of it and maybe learn or gain another perspective! This is probable nothing knew to some of you!

Now,how is this going to help you? easy its practise? Practise for pointing out flaws in logic if there are any or if there isn't any or if your a writer maybe you could write something simailar but better!

Critical thinking if your got enough i believe can help you in court saving you money on a lawyer if need be but lets get to some more relevent examples:

Lets say your watching the news and the news says "don't drink orange juice anymore because it has vitiamin C in it and vitiamin C causes cancer!"

Your going to want to know why, cause its not what you heard about orange juice so you want to know the reason..so the news man comes back on and says "hears why vitiamin C causes cancer,because its orange juice but its ok to take vitiamin C pills?" WTF? what the hell is that? Its whats called a "syllogism!"

We do it all the time,we use subjective reasoning for objective reasoning in writing in talking and arguing! subjective comes in handy for thinking fast...if we are about to get into a car accident we don't have time to debate or try to figure out math or any other left brain task...even thou both sides are going to work together in that moment its mostly going to be your right brain for that task!

But back to the left brain and critical thinking! the more you can spot a syllogism and its parts the more i think you well intuitively be quicker to spot a syllogism cause our left brain i believe programs the right..but don't quote me competely lol!

The easiest why to spot a syllogism or a flawed syllogism is well this...from STEVE HINDES book "Think for your yourself! an Essay on cutting though the babble the Bias, and the Hype." Steve says it best:

"Flawed Syllogism

This term may sound like a frightening and expensive problem with your car, but it's just a problem with your reasoning, which can be much easier to fix. A syllogism is the simple device, first described by Aristotle, of making a conclusion based on two premises. For example,

All that store's bread is made from wheat. This loaf is from that store. Therefore, this loaf is made from wheat.

Pretty simple, huh? You'd be surprised how many ways we can screw it up. Consider first that there are at least four components to a syllogism: at least two premises, one conclusion,and the logic (supposedly) used to connect them. The syllogism is flawed when one or more of these things occur: one of the premises is wrong, the conclusion not valid, or the logic unsound. Often one flaw causes more flaws."

So here is a symple break down to remember:

premise + premise + conclusion + reason or logic = syllogism or flawed syllogism (if one of the 4 above is false or flawd)

The above is easier to remember then every from of "Fallacy" there is(but it don't hurt hurt to know a few)!

What's a fallacy? A fallacy is errors in logic! Like the "Drinking orange juice gives you cancer but taking a vitiamin C pill won't!" example!

So the next time someone trys to sale you on a HD-TV you don't need or try to get you to vote on some issue in politics you well be able to argue back more affective!Also don't forget to ask questions in the arguement,to prob what the other person is saying!

Remember also the goverement don't want you to learn this stuff or to think for yourself! I say "F them learn it!"

So i hope you enjoyed this blog and i hope you use what you learned (if anything!) and apply it to other blogs you read either from me or someone elses blog and use "critical thinking" there are more books on the subject and feel free to tale me about them i would like to check them out!

Thank you and Later!