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Part I Understanding the Basic Theory of Analysis |
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This section provides the foundational theory essential to analysis. It delineates the eight basic structures present in all thinking |
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Why a Guide on Analytic Thinking? |
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Why the Analysis of Thinking is Important |
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All Thinking is Defined by the Eight Elements That Make It Up |
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All Humans Use Their Thinking To Make Sense of the World |
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To Analyze Thinking We Must Learn to Identify and Question Its Elemental Structures |
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To Evaluate Thinking, We Must Understand and Apply Intellectual Standards |
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Thirty-five Dimensions of Critical Thought |
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On the Basis of the Above We Can Develop A Checklist for Evaluating Reasoning |
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Part 2 Getting Started: Some First Steps |
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This section enumerates the most important foundational moves in analysis |
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Understand Your Point of View |
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Think Through the Implications |
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Part 3 Using Analysis to Figure Out the Logic of Anything |
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This section provides a range of sample analyses (as well as templates for analysis) |
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Analyzing the Logic of Human Emotions |
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Analyzing the Logic of an Article, Essay, or
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Analyzing the Logic of a Textbook |
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Evaluating an Author's Reasoning |
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Analyzing the Logic of a Subject |
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Part 4 Taking Your Understanding to a Deeper Level |
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This section explains the elements more comprehensively, differentiating skilled from unskilled reasoners |
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Goals, Purposes, or Objectives |
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Questions, Problems, and Issues |
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Data, Evidence, Experience, Research |
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Inferences, Interpretations, and Conclusions |
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Concepts, Ideas, and Theories |
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Points of View and Perspectives |
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Implications and Consequences |
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Distinguishing Between Inferences and Assumptions |
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