Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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Page 66
... suggestion be reasoned out till the suggestion itself has appeared , etc. But we should be careful not to suppose that a given step is finished when the succeeding one begins . The cases where this is so are the excep- tion rather than ...
... suggestion be reasoned out till the suggestion itself has appeared , etc. But we should be careful not to suppose that a given step is finished when the succeeding one begins . The cases where this is so are the excep- tion rather than ...
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... suggestion are to be carefully reasoned out and the suggestion put to objective proof . The great human fallacy , the basic source of error in thinking , is oversuggestive- ness , the readiness to accept solutions without proper testing ...
... suggestion are to be carefully reasoned out and the suggestion put to objective proof . The great human fallacy , the basic source of error in thinking , is oversuggestive- ness , the readiness to accept solutions without proper testing ...
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... suggestion are two : first , that it should be such as to give rise to definite deductions ; and second , that its consequences thus deducible furnish a clear and unambiguous guide to further observation or action . A suggestion without ...
... suggestion are two : first , that it should be such as to give rise to definite deductions ; and second , that its consequences thus deducible furnish a clear and unambiguous guide to further observation or action . A suggestion without ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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