Sev­en Tools For Crit­ic­al Think­ing

Some guys wondered about the sub­title of this blog. The ex­pres­sion ’90% of everything is crap’ is the well-known Sturgeon’s Law (or Sturgeon’s Rev­el­a­tion). The reas­on I use it is be­cause I find Daniel Dennett’s work quite in­ter­est­ing and I think in mod­ern ma­gic it holds true (for 90%). Sturgeon’s Law is rep­res­en­ted (point 6) in his Sev­en Tools For Crit­ic­al Think­ing:

1. Use Your Mis­takes

2. Re­spect Your Op­pon­ent

3. The ‘Surely’ Klax­on

4. An­swer Rhet­or­ic­al Ques­tions

5. Em­ploy Occam’s Razor

6. Don’t Waste Your Time on Rub­bish

7. Be­ware of Deep­it­ies

In or­der to get an idea of what he means you prob­ably have to check out the In­ter­net. I found a couple of points def­in­itely can be ap­plied to our ma­gic­al think­ing. I’m sure Eu­gene Bur­ger would like it …