Practical Reasoning for Everyday Life

About Course

Develop Logical Thinking & Spot Manipulations Enhance your logical thinking skills and learn to identify manipulations, logical fallacies, and cognitive biases with this course. You will gain the ability to argue persuasively, make sound decisions, and recognize errors in reasoning—essential tools for clearer, more rational thinking.

Course Content

How to be logical
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Course Description
Eliminating inconsistency
Workshop. Logic puzzle by L. Carroll
Answer to L. Carroll’s logic puzzle
How to think critically
Validity Check Algorithm
Workshop. Detective puzzle
Answer to detective puzzle

We identify logical errors and manipulations
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Why do they make logical mistakes
How to counteract manipulation
Identifying hasty generalizations
Detecting a substitution of the thesis
Revealing an argument to the individual
We reveal an argument to the people
Revealing an argument for benefit
Revealing an argument for vanity
Revealing an Argument for Modesty
We reveal the anticipation of the foundation
We identify the replacement of a sufficient condition with a necessary condition
We identify the replacement of causality with chronology
Revealing the transition from correlation to causation
Revealing speculation
We identify the replacement of special knowledge with everyday ideas
We detect violation of following
Revealing the vicious circle
Identifying shortcuts and biased terminology
Revealing an argument for fidelity
Revealing the appeal to extremes
Detecting manipulations in questions
Detecting manipulations in responses
Workshop. Detecting manipulation

Identifying cognitive distortions
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Working effectively with concepts
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Content and scope of the concept
Workshop. Revealing empty concepts
How to formulate definitions
Scheme for constructing successful definitions
Workshop. Analyzing definitions
How to effectively work with the volume of concepts
Workshop. Division of concepts
Analyzing the relationships between concepts
Workshop. Defining relationships between concepts

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

How to be logical content

Course Description

Eliminating inconsistency

Workshop. Logic puzzle by L. Carroll

Answer to L. Carroll’s logic puzzle

How to think critically

Validity Check Algorithm

Workshop. Detective puzzle

Answer to detective puzzle

We identify logical errors and manipulations content

Why do they make logical mistakes

How to counteract manipulation

Identifying hasty generalizations

Detecting a substitution of the thesis

Revealing an argument to the individual

We reveal an argument to the people

Revealing an argument for benefit

Revealing an argument for vanity

Revealing an Argument for Modesty

We reveal the anticipation of the foundation

We identify the replacement of a sufficient condition with a necessary condition

We identify the replacement of causality with chronology

Revealing the transition from correlation to causation

Revealing speculation

We identify the replacement of special knowledge with everyday ideas

We detect violation of following

Revealing the vicious circle

Identifying shortcuts and biased terminology

Revealing an argument for fidelity

Revealing the appeal to extremes

Detecting manipulations in questions

Detecting manipulations in responses

Workshop. Detecting manipulation

Identifying cognitive distortions content

Cognitive distortions and logical errors

Revealing selective perception

Revealing the Illusion of Control

Revealing the survivor’s mistake

Detecting an attribution error

Identifying the cascade of available information

Working effectively with concepts content

Content and scope of the concept

Workshop. Revealing empty concepts

How to formulate definitions

Scheme for constructing successful definitions

Workshop. Analyzing definitions

How to effectively work with the volume of concepts

Workshop. Division of concepts

Analyzing the relationships between concepts

Workshop. Defining relationships between concepts

Making logical judgments content

Structure of judgment

Relationship between subject and predicate

Choosing the optimal type of judgment

How to make complex judgments correctly

Workshop. Analyzing judgments

How to successfully compare judgments

Workshop. Determine the type of connection between judgments

Using the power of propositional logic

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How to be logical
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We identify logical errors and manipulations
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Identifying cognitive distortions
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Working effectively with concepts
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Making logical judgments
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