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What Does Critical Thinking Mean To You?

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Straggler
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12-15-2014 10:26 AM 		Reply to: Message 269 by Jon
12-15-2014 9:47 AM

Re: Critical Thinking Remix
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My beliefs are admittedly silly. They make no sense to anyone else and only very little sense to me. They are likely all wrong because, let's be honest, given all the possible answers to questions about God and religion, what are the chances that I stumbled on the right one(s)?
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So you believe that your beliefs (about God etc.) are "likely all wrong"...?
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Jon writes:
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But that doesn't mean I should stop believing what I believe.
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Combined with the belief that your beliefs are wrong and - BOOM - We are in head explosion territory.
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Message 274 of 339 (744946)
12-17-2014 6:04 AM 		Reply to: Message 273 by Phat
12-16-2014 12:21 PM

Re: Critical Thinking Remix
Stating that one's knowledge is incomplete is very different to stating that one believes that the beliefs they hold are wrong.
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The first almost goes without saying in all but the most pedantic of debate situations (which admittedly is the environment in which we are often in here) and the second is a recipe for cognitive dissonance on steroids.
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