Clear and Present Thinking

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Index

Dif– Ple

Difference Principle 110

Inductive Generalization 64

dilemmas 61

inferences 49

disinformation 88, 98

Intellectual Environments 15

disjunctions, disjuncts 51

Intellectual Laziness 36

disjunctive syllogism 60, 68

Islam 18 –19

doctrine of the mean 109

Jaspers, Karl 21

doubt, reasonable 36

Justice, distributive 110

emotions 84

Kant, Immanuel 107

enthymemes 58

lexicality 106

equivocation 76

Loaded Question Fallacy 76

evidence 86

Lucretius 111

experts 91

Luther, Martin 9

explaining common occurrences 64

marginalization 98

extraordinary claims 87

Marx brothers 94

fallacies 73

Marxism 19

Fallacy of Composition 75

McClung, Nellie 9

Fallacy of Division 75

McMurtry, John 26 –27

Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle 76

media 96–100, see also news, advertising

False Cause 76

Modernism 18

False Dilemma 77

Modrian, Piet 43

Fawkes, Guy 20

Modus Ponens 55

Foucault, Michel 16

Modus Tollens 56

framing language 19, 97

moral statements 103

frauds 93– 94

moral theories 104–105

generalizing 64

Murrow, Edward R. 9

global warming 92

naturalistic fallacy 76

Glover, Jonathan 105

negative statements 50

good habits 39 –45

news 97

habeus corpus 108

Nightingale, Florence 9

hasty generalization 77

non sequitor Fallacy 76

Havel, Vaclav 9

objective list (utilitarianism) 106

health 40

objectivity 21

Heliocentrism 18

observation 21

heroic virtues 109

Ockham’s Razor 42, 88

Hobbes, Thomas 111

Open-ness and Open-Mindedness 43

honey trap 95

pareidolia 92–93

Hume, David 111

parrhesia 41

Huntington, Samuel 27

arguments 49

hypothetical syllogism 58

passive reporting 98

indicator words 49

Patience 43

Induction 63

Peer Pressure 34

Induction by Shared Properties 66

phishing 94

Induction by Shared Relations 67

Plato 109, 111

induction 50

pleasure principle (utilitarianism) 106


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