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Is there a specific name for the study of good reasoning or good thinking? I guess that some people call this "logic", but definitions of logic that I find on the internet are a bit different (narrower?). In some areas, "methodology" seems an appropriate word. Has epistemology a significant relation to this?
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March 19, 2009

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William Rapaport
March 20, 2009 (changed March 20, 2009) Permalink

Some terms that are used for what I think you have in mind are "informal logic" and "critical thinking". To see if those are, indeed, what you have in mind, you might check out the article on Informal Logic in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. And there's some discussion of "critical thinking" in SEP in its article on Philosophy for Children (but the topic of critical thinking is by no means limited to children!).

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