The document provides an overview of critical thinking skills for kids, including defining key concepts like facts versus opinions, understanding cognitive biases, identifying fallacies in reasoning, deductive and non-deductive logic, and establishing causation. It covers logical concepts like premises, conclusions, Venn diagrams, and syllogisms. It also discusses moral reasoning and evaluating the reliability of sources and arguments.

1. Critical Thinking for Kids

2. 1. What is critical thinking

3. Objective VS. Subjective

4. Facts VS. Opinion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnFnWWAnlkw

6. Moral Subjectivism

7. Arguments, Premises And Conclusions

11. reasoning

12. Deductive VS. Inductive

15. 2. cognitive biases

19. belief bias
all dogs are animal
is animal
is dog

20. bandwagon effect

21. obedience to authority

22. confirmation bias

23. hindsight bias

24. availability heuristic

25. 3. source of confusion

26. vague

27. ambiguity

28. abstraction

29. 4. believability

32. Source

33. stakeholders／Interested Party

34. 5. rhetoric

35. euphemism

36. weaseler
About
Up to
Maybe
Possible

37. downplayer
So called
Merely
Quotation Mark
Only

38. stereotype

39. hyperbole

40. proof surrogate

41. repeat

42. 5. emotion related fallacy

43. rage/angry

44. scare/argument by force

45. argument from pity

46. argument from envy

47. vain

48. guilty

49. peer pressure arguments

50. groupthink fallacy／nationalism

51. red herring / smoke screen

52. argument from popularity

53. arguments from common practice

54. argument from tradition

56. rationalizing

57. two wrong make a right

59. 6. more fallacy

60. the ad hominem fallacy

62. the genetic fallacy

63. straw man fallacy

64. false dilemma

65. slippery slope

66. misplace the burden proof

67. begging the question

68. 7. deduction
categorical logic

69. venn diagram

70. venn diagram

72. venn diagram

73. all A’s are B’s
B
A

74. not A’s are B’s
B
A

75. some A’s are B’s
B
A
BA
A
B

76. some A’s are not B’s
B
A
B
A
A
B

77. syllogism

78. 8 deduction
true-functional logic

79. and / conjunction

80. not / negation

81. or / disjunction

82. conditional claim

83. sufficient vs necessary

84. logic deduction
•A -> B, B -> C
•A -> C
•A -> B
•not B -> not A

85. 9 non-deductive reasoning

86. statistical syllogism

87. sampling

88. analogy

89. illicit inductive conversation
“Most wealthy people are men so most men are wealthy.”
“Most modern terrorists are Muslims, therefore most Muslims are terrorists.”

90. 10 cause and effect

92. fully explanation

93. Hypotheis
• method of difference
• method of agreement (cum hoc, ergo propter hoc)
• causal mechanism
• best diagnosis method

94. method of difference

95. method of agreement

96. causal mechanism

97. best diagnosis

98. control experiments

99. 11 moral

100. value judgement

102. Principles

103. consequentialism/utilitarianism

104. duty theory/deontologism

105. moral relativism

106. virtue ethics