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The 22 pages that link to Critical thinking, each with the reason it gives.

• Media literacyRelated: It supports judgments about the credibility and meaning of media messages.

• Socratic methodRelated: Socratic questioning cultivates critical thinking by making assumptions and inferential steps explicit.

• PremiseNarrower topic: Evaluating premises is a central part of assessing an argument.

• Health literacyRelated: Evaluating health claims requires distinguishing evidence from unsupported assertions.

• Secular humanismRelated: Secular humanism uses critical inquiry to assess beliefs and guide decisions.

• Liberal arts collegeRelated: Developing this capacity is a central stated outcome of broad undergraduate study.

• Information literacyRelated: It supplies reasoning skills for judging sources and drawing warranted conclusions.

• Liberal arts educationRelated: It is a transferable practice developed across otherwise different fields of study.

• Visual literacyRelated: Evaluating visual claims requires checking what an image shows and what it leaves unsupported.

• ConclusionNarrower topic: Identifying the conclusion is a first step in evaluating an argument.

• HumanitiesRelated: Close analysis of texts and arguments cultivates habits of careful judgment.

• General educationRelated: Courses outside a major often use critical thinking as a transferable learning goal.

• PareidoliaRelated: It helps distinguish a compelling perceived pattern from evidence that the pattern has an external cause.

• Scientific literacyRelated: It helps identify weak arguments and unsupported leaps in scientific communication.

• IndoctrinationCompared with: It provides habits of scrutiny that indoctrinative teaching tends to inhibit.

• Anti-intellectualismCompared with: It scrutinizes expert claims without rejecting expertise as a whole.

• Informal fallacyNarrower topic: Recognizing informal fallacies is one tool for evaluating arguments carefully.

• ThoughtRelated: It applies reflective thought to deciding what deserves belief.

• Brain teaserRelated: Solving a teaser can practice checking whether its wording supports an assumption.

• False dilemmaNarrower topic: Checking whether a choice is exhaustive is one practical test of an argument.

• Informal logicNarrower topic: Informal logic supplies tools for the broader practice of assessing beliefs and arguments.

• Michael ShermerRelated: Shermer presents these reasoning skills as practical defenses against misinformation and error.