(Ep. 8) The Analysis of Reasoning - Inert Information, Activated Ignorance, & Activated Knowledge

This is the eighth episode of Critical Thinking: Going Deeper, which was long only available to members of The Center for Critical Thinking Community Online (community.criticalthinking.org).
Inert information is information that, though memorized, is not understood (despite whether the memorizer believes he or she understands it). Activated ignorance is false information mistaken as true and actively used by the mind. Activated knowledge is information that is 1) true, 2) actively used by the mind, and 3) leads the mind by implication to more knowledge.
In this episode, Drs. Gerald Nosich and Linda Elder discuss these important categories of information.
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