What is Critical Thinking?

[CFLarsen]

I'll debate the evidence with you any day, Claus, that is until I get tired of you ignoring that evidence. Your personal attacks claiming I ignore the evidence simply don't stand up to scrutiny.

Here are two posts from another thread providing support for my assertion I am strong on evidence, refuting your ad hom for which you cannot provide specific evidence of.

I'm not saying you aren't capable of examining evidence in other areas. I'm saying that in the field of politics, you behave like the worst propagandist.

See also here.

 

[Dr H]

I'm not saying you aren't capable of examining evidence in other areas. I'm saying that in the field of politics, you behave like the worst propagandist.

See also here.

Is it appropriate to discuss politics in the "Critical Thinking" thread, or should it maybe be over with the Seven Deadly Sins?

 

[CFLarsen]

Is it appropriate to discuss politics in the "Critical Thinking" thread, or should it maybe be over with the Seven Deadly Sins?

Oh, we can think skeptically about politics. E.g., if a politician claims that his politics made crime go down, we can look at the evidence.

What we can't do is claim that our political beliefs are validated by critical thinking, thus making them unassailable.

Which is what skeptigirl is doing. Or trying to do.

 

[Dr H]

Oh, we can think skeptically about politics. E.g., if a politician claims that his politics made crime go down, we can look at the evidence.

We can do that, but politics, like the social sciences, tends to get pretty messy.
I was more wondering about the local conventions governing thread-drift.

What we can't do is claim that our political beliefs are validated by critical thinking, thus making them unassailable.

Which is what skeptigirl is doing. Or trying to do.

I'm going to stay out of this one.
I've already made it into at least one killfile, and I've only been posting for three weeks.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I'll put my critical thinking principles to the test in the politics threads against yours any day, Claus. It is you who doesn't support your positions with evidence, not me.

 

[CFLarsen]

I'll put my critical thinking principles to the test in the politics threads against yours any day, Claus. It is you who doesn't support your positions with evidence, not me.

And how do you suggest such a test is designed?

What would the test prove?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

And how do you suggest such a test is designed?

What would the test prove?

You could look for assertions I have made that are unsupportable. The problem will be of course, that you brush off evidence that doesn't agree with your conclusions. I have yet to see you concede a single thing in a single thread when presented with overwhelming evidence time and time again.

 

[CFLarsen]

You could look for assertions I have made that are unsupportable. The problem will be of course, that you brush off evidence that doesn't agree with your conclusions. I have yet to see you concede a single thing in a single thread when presented with overwhelming evidence time and time again.

That doesn't answer the questions:

How do you suggest such a test is designed?

What would the test prove?