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    In Logical Thinking, there is an argument such as of cause and effect. In cause and effect the requirement to build this argument are the cause premise and the effect premise. We also need to make sure that our argument can be very convincing by knowing the correlation between the cause and effect, the reverse of cause and effect, and how something can causing something, by knowing those short of thing we can build strong cause and effect argument.  We can also found deductive argument in logical thinking. There are many kinds of it such as, modus ponens, modus tollens, and syllogism. Deductive argument is type of reasoning that if the premises are correct then the conclusion is must be correct, even if we reverse it the premise will keep correct. After learning those type of argument, there is a logical fallacy where people use wrong logic in responding an argument, such as ad hominem, strawman argument, appeal to ignorance, false dilemma, slippery slope fallacy, etc...

      Critical thinking is the way of thinking that make us able to think clearly and logically without including much emotion that probably can disturb the way we thinking logically. In this era, we should learn this technique because it help us prevent ourselves from any hoax that spread around our community.  Some people misunderstand about think critically is same as criticism. Think critically means that we think systematically, logically, and objectively and criticism is finding out the mistake in many things. It sounds similar, but it is completely different.     The default way of human thinking is instant, short, and emotional. this way of thinking is good at making simple conclusion on simple problem, but it does not work really well in complex argument. That is why we need to learn to use Critical thinking. In complex argument, we have to think deeply, systematic, and slowly because we need to be careful with the information w...