Prospero’s Precepts: 11 Tools for Critical Thinking

A fantastic list of 11rules culled from some of history’s greatest minds can serve as a general-purpose guideline for critical thinking in all matters of doubt. This list appears inAKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question(Peter Surrock) and is discussed in more detail at Brainpickings:

All beliefs in whatever realm are theories at some level. (Stephen Schneider)
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. (Dandemis)
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