Learn to recognize and overcome many of the most dangerously deceptive logical fallacies. Like Level 1, this Skill Builder exercises and strengthens your critical thinking skills of Inference and Evaluation in a variety of contexts demanding logical precision. Typically these are contexts where the outcome is a necessary logical consequence of a given set of rules, conditions, core beliefs, values, policies, principles, specifications, procedures, or definitions. Fallacious reasoning in these contexts can result in serious errors.

When you complete this Skill Builder, you will receive onscreen your Personal Feedback – Overall score. And scores on four specific factors: Understanding the Problem, Identifying Valid Arguments, Spotting Illogical Arguments, and Seeing the Argument Pattern. You will be able to download a PDF copy of the feedback, which includes a summary of key ideas, along with your scores in each area.

Skill Builders are interactive personal development tools. They include questions with debriefs, insights, exercises, thought experiments, and explanations. Use these short courses to strengthen your critical thinking, solve problems more effectively, and make better, more reflective, decisions.