Thinking Skills

The following is an attempt to organize my posts related to clear thinking, problem solving and decision making into a coherent, easy to use format. I'm just an average guy trying to get a better understanding of these topics and as such, I have no doubt oversimplified or misunderstood some of these concepts. Please do your own research and confirm anything you find here.

I. Fundamentals of Informal Logic
  A. Informal Logic in a Nutshell
      1) Argument & Argument Analysis
      2) Acceptable Premises
      3) Relevance and Sufficiency

      4) Laws of Logic/Though

   
  B. Deductive Arguments
      1) Categorical Logic
      2) Propositional Logic

  C. Inductive Arguments
      1) Inductive Generalization
      2) Statistical Syllogism
      3) Analogical Arguments
      4) Causal Arguments
          a. Mill's Methods
          b. Bradford Hill criteria

  D. Abductive Arguments

  E. (So called) Logical Fallacies
      1) Fallacies Violating Acceptability (Problematic Premises)
        -Begging the Question/Circular Reasoning
        -Equivocation
        -False Analogy

      2) Fallacies Violating Relevance (Irrelevant Reason/It Does Not Follow)
        -Red Herring
        -Straw Man
        -Ad Hominem
           -Poisoning the Well
        -Tu Quoque
           -Whataboutism
        -Guilt by Association
        -Appeal to Popularity
        -Non-Sequitur
        -Appeal to Authority

      3) Fallacies Violating Sufficiency (Hasty Conclusion)
        -Argument from Ignorance
        -Affirming the Consequent
        -Denying the Antecedent
        -Hasty Generalization
           -Misleading Vividness
        -Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
        -False Dichotomy
        -Fallacy Fallacy   
   

  F. Bad Reasoning (that may or may not be considered fallacies)
    -Kafkatrapping
    -Motte & Bailey

II. Problem Solving

  A. Problem Solving Process


III. Information/Knowledge Management
  A. Outline