Books on Critical Thinking

I find it more productive to study logic instead. I have a hard time seeing the difference between logic and critical thinking. If you think I&#x27;m wrong, just take a look at a bunch of kinds of logic[1] and tell me if critical thinking is not subsumed into at least one of them.<p>I put my money on inductive logic[2].<p>For beginners, I recommend the wonderful <i>Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments</i>[3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Outline_of_logic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Outline_of_logic</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;entries&#x2F;logic-inductive&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;entries&#x2F;logic-inductive&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bookofbadarguments.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bookofbadarguments.com&#x2F;</a>

Unfortunately &quot;The Art of Critical Thinking&quot; is completely plagiarized:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fooledbyrandomness.com&#x2F;dobelli.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fooledbyrandomness.com&#x2F;dobelli.htm</a>

A week or two ago, in a post about books on leadership, someone posted about the US Army&#x27;s ADRP 6-22 Army Leadership handbook, which I started reading. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benning.army.mil&#x2F;mssp&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;adrp6_22_new.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benning.army.mil&#x2F;mssp&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;adrp6_22_new.pdf</a><p>Apparently, they keep track of terminology they deprecate in former revisions of the handbook. &quot;Critical Thinking&quot; being one of them as it is &quot;No longer a formally defined term.&quot; (Page vi)<p>So, what does &quot;Critical Thinking&quot; mean to you?

For those coming here interested in learning about formal&#x2F;mathematical logic, see &quot;Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide&quot; (previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18757972" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18757972</a>)

Skeptics Guide to the Universe <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Skeptics-Guide-Universe-Really-Increasingly&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1538760533" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Skeptics-Guide-Universe-Really-Increa...</a>

Does anyone know of any particular critical thinking genre books, that somehow focus more on the particulars of <i>language usage</i>? Something that gets into things like the shortcomings of language in properly describing the complexity of reality, as well as detecting usage (both intentional and unintentional) that would indicate potential underlying rhetorical manipulation (intentional), or fallacious thinking (unintentional)?

What&#x27;s with fivebooks? This is the 4th link from that domain in the last 24h.

I have read the art of thinking clearly, but was quite unimpressed.

It is unfortunate that Thinking Fast and Slow has received some negative feedback over the years, mostly due to questionable sources and conclusions.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retractionwatch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;20&#x2F;placed-much-faith-underpowered-studies-nobel-prize-winner-admits-mistakes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retractionwatch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;20&#x2F;placed-much-faith-und...</a>