Critical Thinking and the Spock Fallacy.

Walters, Kerry S.

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ERIC Number: EJ418503

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Publication Date: 1990

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Critical Thinking and the Spock Fallacy.

Walters, Kerry S.

Innovative Higher Education, v15 n1 p17-28 Fall-Win 1990

Conventional instruction in critical thinking may ignore the creative and intuitive functions of rationality, thereby encouraging a mechanically rote approach to textual analysis, problem solving, and problem construction. Such an overemphasis upon logical "calculus of justification" functions has epistemological weaknesses and pedagogical hazards. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Logic, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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