A Mathematician's Perspective on Math, Faith, and Life
Critical Thinking Toolkit
This page contains my most recent posts in the series “Critical Thinking Toolkit”. My goal in this series is to do summary overviews of helpful principles in thinking clearly and critically about the world. If you want to see a full list of posts I’ve written in this series, see this database post, in which I try to organize and update a full list of all posts in this series.
Imagine the following scenario. A man walks up to an 80 year old with walking on his cane in the street, knocks him out with a single punch, then claims to be the best boxer who has ever lived. Sound silly? It should. This is an embodiment of what is known as the straw manContinue reading “Critical Thinking Toolkit: Straw Man Fallacy”
Up to this point, my database posts have been about compiling data from external sources. This database post is more organizational in nature. My goal here is to systematize the posts I’ve written in my series “Critical Thinking Toolkit”. The purpose of the series was to provide summary approaches to various areas of critical thinkingContinue reading “Database: Critical Thinking Toolkit”
In moments of deeper thought, have you ever noticed that there seem to be certain features of the world that are quite arbitrary or random, while other things seem like there isn’t really any other way things could be? Have you ever wondered at why things are the way they are, instead of some otherContinue reading “Critical Thinking Toolkit: Necessity and Contingency”
Here, I’d like to discuss two interconnected tendencies we human beings have. We like looking for patterns, and we like explaining things. These are both incredibly important features of the way we think as humans. But they are not identical. It is easy to get them confused, and we often do get them confused. ThisContinue reading “Critical Thinking Toolkit: The Correlation-Causation Fallacy”
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About Me
Hi, I’m Will. I’m studying as a graduate student in math, and am also interested in theology, education, philosophy, science, and mental health. My goal here is to write defending the views I have on these subjects and to help interested readers learn more about these subjects.
