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Analyzing Elbow's Proposal

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To begin, Elbows proposal, using the believing and doubting games to find insight, requires one to focus only on one side of the issue. He asks us to pick one perspective and to either accept it wholeheartedly or not at all. After choosing this one idea, it will be examined to either certify or delegitimize the other. Critical thinking, on the other hand, requires a more holistic approach, requiring one to weigh two perspectives: two contrasting ideas on one issue. One must participate in objective analysis in order to determine which is the most logical and the least flawed. This is where the most significant difference can be seen. When playing the believing and doubting games, one cannot be objective. In the believing game, he must

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