Thinking Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/thinking/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 08 Feb 2025 14:28:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Thinking Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/thinking/ 32 32 Habits for Sound Reasoning https://mind-at-work.com/good-habits-for-sound-reasoning/ Sat, 08 Feb 2025 14:23:08 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6167 This essay returns to the series "Good Habits," which is based on my book of the same title. The discussion here concerns the habit of "Sound Reasoning." Sound reasoning may be the most important habit we can have, yet it seems to be among the least practiced in the present age. Why is that? Mainly [...]

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]]> What Do We Really Know? https://mind-at-work.com/what-do-we-really-know/ Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:05:03 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5536 Many years ago, when I was a college sophomore majoring in Sociology, I took a course in Criminology. The professor was a stern European and he graded in a way I had never previously encountered. It was called "Right Minus Wrong," meaning that grades would be calculated by subtracting wrong answers from right ones. The [...]

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