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Debate and Correct Thinking primarily deal with only one type of thinking called reasoning. Reasoning is a mental process whereby we sensibly generate justifications, find results, or draw conclusions. As may be inferred from the word itself, reasoning is basically producing reasons as evidence for a certain proposition we wish to establish.
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Correct reasoning is a guide to ‘good thinking.’
The subjects that deal with correct reasoning (like Debate) teach the methods and principles for distinguishing correct from incorrect reasoning. Academically significant, those principles of correct reasoning are also guides to ‘good thinking’ just as the principles of medicine are guides to properly treating diseases.
AMONG OTHER THINGS, this article addresses the questions of many students on the reasons they have to take academic subjects like Logic, Debate, Critical Thinking, and Public Speaking. Since these disciplines, especially when combined to each other, contribute a lot to possessing the quality called “correct reasoning,” it is important to know what this intellectual attitude can afford us.
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