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Core Concepts in Critical Thinking, Part I: "Fundamentally, Critical Thinking or Informal Logic deals with the use of reason in the pursuit of truth. While there is serious doubt about the power of reason to discover any 'new' truth, the 'rules' of logic concern the ways truth can be preserved as we make inferences -- one or more statements to support or justify another statement. Taken this way, there is no great 'mystery' to the concepts of Logic. At the very core of logic is the idea that certain 'patterns of inference' - i.e. models for combining statements that support with those which are supposedly supported -- will, if the supporting statements are true, guarantee the truth of the statement supported by them. In studying logic, we identify, study, and apply these patterns or principles of logical reasoning and express them in some general way - a way which is independent of the subject being reasoned about."

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