In my view, the best way to learn critical thinking is to practice it. For example, let's analyze this part critically for a moment: > * Post-modernism, in th

In my view, the best way to learn critical thinking is to practice it. For example, let's analyze this part critically for a moment: > * Post-modernism, in the critical literary sense: The fact that so many respond so angrily to it should tell you how powerful and challenging it is, as well as the fact that those same people use it without seeming to realize it. Some of the most devastating criticism of postmodernism consists of incidents like the Sokal affair [1]. I don't see how this would count as 'using' postmodernism, though, when it is merely pointing out that the theory is indistinguishable from word salad. I suspect you had other criticism in mind, but this specific criticism could only be seen as 'using' it if you privilege postmodernism itself as the overarching framework under which to understand everything else. Such a viewpoint which would be quite ironic in postmodernism, though, and should therefore be rejected as self-contradictory. The other bit of reasoning employed here seems to be pretty much the 'denial is proof' trap, which should also be understood to be an inherently self-refuting argument. This is true even if one wishes to say that it 'uses' the argument in some sense while playing the thing against itself to arrive at a contradiction. After all, one cannot both accept that denial is some kind of proof, while denying the rest of the above logic and thereby providing proof for it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair