School of Critical Thinking

The CARM online School of Critical Thinking is designed to take you step-by-step through the basics of rational discourse, logic, and basic principles of analysis.  A lot of critical thinking books are conceptually demanding, but the CARM online School takes the basics of critical thinking concepts and applies them to the issues dealing with the Christian faith, its establishment, and its defense.

Course Contents

1. 0.00 INTRODUCTION
   1. .01 Introduction
   2. .02 How to use this school
   3. .03  Dictionary of Terms
   4. .04  Update Information
2. 1.00 NECESSARY TOOLS
   1. .01 The Spirit of God
   2. .02 Logic
   3. .03 Information
   4. .04 Knowing what you believe
   5. .05 Focus Points
3. 2.00 LOGIC
   1. .01 Three Laws of Logic
   2. .02 Logical Absolutes
   3. .03 Logical Absolutes and God
   4. .04  Deduction and Induction
   5. .05 Syllogisms
   6. .06 Focus Points
4.  3.00 LOGICAL FALLACIES
5. 1. .01 Logical Fallacies
   2. .02 Ad hominem
   3. .03 Begging the Question
   4. .04 Red Herring
   5. .05 Straw man
   6. .06 Equivocation
   7. .07 False Dichotomy
   8. .08 Genetic Fallacy
   9. .09 Special Pleading
   10. .10 Appeal to the popular
   11. .11 Focus Points
6. 4.00 OTHER
   1. .01 Thinking map
   2. .02 Identifying assumptions
   3. .03 Falsifiability
   4. .04 Focus Points
7.  5.00 EXAMPLES OF ERRORS
   1. .01 Agnosticism
   2. .02 Atheism 1st
   3. .03 Atheism 2nd
   4. .04 Christianity 1st
   5. .05 Christianity 2nd
   6. .06 Focus Points
8.  6.00 DIALOGUE ANALYSIS
   1. .01 Logical Absolutes
   2. .02 Assumptions
   3. .03 Agnostic doubts the gospels
   4. .04 Validity of atheism
   5. .05 Does God know the future?
   6. .06 Focus Points
9.  7.00 CONCLUSION
   1. .01 Focus Points
      .02 Summary
      .03 Certificate