<p>Here is what my Harvard Husband thinks about this ( he doesn’t do the CC sort of thing ) :
Critical thinking means the willingness and ability to identify critical facts and their implications. When society as a whole refuses to confront reality, the cost of critical thinking becomes finding yourself in opposition to the norms of society or getting depressed about the stupidity of society. Whether you talk about the Vietnam war (from my era), the probable eventual failure of the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war to have a good ending, society’s unwillingness to believe in and take action about global climate disruption, or the basing of economic and food security on the use of resources beyond their rate of renewal, including water (draw-down of aquifers) soil, and energy, the general response is the same - critical thinking is not modeled by the leaders of society. Two of our children explicitly discuss how much they can allow themselves to focus on this reality before they will get depressed.</p>
<p>how does this address the original question? Why is your husband’s alma mater at all relevant?</p>
<p>what kind of dr is a dom?</p>
<p>In the NYT yesterday, [DEDUCTIVE</a> REASONING - Opinionator - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/deductive-reasoning/]DEDUCTIVE”>deductive reasoning - Opinionator - The New York Times) was this interesting piece. Deductive vs. inductive reasoning. It was about John Taylor, Stanford economist, and how he rationalized economics, vs others such as Krugman - deductive vs inductive ways of seeing the economy today.</p>