Defensive Thinking (Paperback)

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Editorial: Independently Published, 2026

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Paperback. Every day someone asks you to believe something.A headline. A politician. A scientific study. A social media post. A friend. A news story.Most of us were taught what to think about the world. Very few of us were taught how to decide what deserves to be believed.A staggering amount of what you hear daily is wrong. Some of it is careless; some is a deliberate trap. But the real danger isn't the dishonesty of others-it's that human reasoning is easily manipulated, and increasingly outsourced. We accept claims that feel right long before we check if they are right.Defensive Thinking is the intellectual toolkit you were never given in school.Part history, part philosophy, and part practical field guide, this book traces the evolution of "intellectual adulthood". It follows the tools built by the world's greatest minds to separate persuasion from logic and reduce avoidable error. Inside, you will learn how to: Separate Validity from Persuasion: Use the "Socratic Method" and Aristotelian logic to expose weak foundations in confident claims. Navigate Uncertainty: Master the "Mathematics of Uncertainty" and use Bayes' Theorem to update your beliefs as new evidence arrives. Decipher Science: Learn to read a study without panicking, distinguish correlation from causation, and understand what studies are actually saying.Defend Your Judgment: Identify the cognitive biases and "moral structures" that quietly disconnect us from reality. Written as a letter to the author's nineteen-year-old self-and to a new generation entering a misleading information environment-this is more than a book on logic. It is a roadmap to intellectual independence. Belief should follow evidence. Most of the time, it doesn't. It's time to close the gap. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Título
Defensive Thinking (Paperback)
Autor
Timothy S. Claason
Editorial
Independently Published
Año de publicación
2026
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 13
9798250763707

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