What are less known resources to read about or train critical-thinking?

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Heyo folks,In the world of confusion, information wars and times when BS radards can be easily manipulated with the new modern warfare of creating stories and narratives about pretty much anything these days...What are the best links / resources on critical thinking and perhaps what is really missing?A few rules: - List of cognitive biases doesn't count - high chance of failure, low applicability - No vague resources like "7 ways to think better" that are not saying much please - Something that perhaps has been overlooked and less known

inphovore · Accepted Answer

I have spent decades developing ideas around this very topic.
I have some take away highlights and a few concrete favorites.
Uncertainty is the natural disposition of Reality. Certainty is a self deception. One can only be less uncertain and make the most appropriate decision when necessary. It is the prerogative of fools to decide prematurely or without necessity.
Man is born fool, lives his entire life fool, and dies a fool; it is a determination that she be otherwise in between that may make it so.
No one is entitled to hold others responsible for their own ignorance and confusion.
A “Truth” is a perturbation in objective reality. The “truth” is the approximation in the human mind. Integrity is the measure of precision between these two.
Truth is not constrained by the horizon of ignorance. Truth does not need a reason, you do. Truth need not make sense, sense is what you make of it.
As for good general resources
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/art-of-critical-deci...
A whole range of prior discourse establishes that there are MULTIPLE successful cognitive strategies both learned and disposed at birth.
Gardener’s theories of multiple intelligences, some schools of psychological temperaments are cognitive strategies in behavioral disguise.
These legacy examples must be tolerated in their crude form. Our modern minds are only now becoming self aware.
To study our cognitive vulnerabilities, study how they have been exploited throughout history. Robert Green’s trilogy on war, power, and seduction are fine examples of effective exploitation.

sigmaprimus · Answer

Start with fables maybe? Stuff that has been overlooked in modern education systems? Critical thinking is like riding a bike or swimming, or an optical illusion...Once you get it it you get it.
Aesop's Fables is a good start!
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28/28-h/28-h.htm#pref01 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28