Thinking matters : critical thinking as creative problem solving
- New Jersey : World Scientific, 2021
- xiii, 217 p. ; ill. (some color), 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The ancient Roman orator Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) wrote, "Control your mind or it will control you." In today's society we are faced with more information, and more complex information, than ever. Faced with making decisions, we can feel overwhelmed and helpless. One way to become less helpless - to gain control over our lives - is to gain control over our own thinking. We can feel helpless when faced with this barrage of information, opinions, data, and conflicting arguments if we lack the skills to quickly grasp and critically evaluate them. This book is designed to impart these kinds of skills.
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Problem solving Creative thinking Critical thinking Aristotelian categorical propositions Binary coding Brain, left-right Card tricks Chaos theory Checker-shadow illusion Dependent relations Data architecture Euler path Fermat's Last Theorem Godel's theorem Halting problem Isomorphism Kuratowski's theorem Ladd-Franklin rules Modus ponens Nine dot puzzle Probability tree Ramsey's theorem Silhouette illusion Heuristics Puzzles