Critical Thinkers are above all else, pragmatic and capable of seperating their reasoning of a viewpoint from their own strong emotions about that subject. All the above being true, this therefore is a course in Logic. Therefore, Logic is a system or method used to figure something out. Informal Logic A person has to know their own attitude, psychological quirks, and upbringing very well. They must know how things in their background and makeup influence their ability to reason.
Informal logic is the reasoning out the Content of the argument.
A person should be able to evaluate those visual and auditory devices which advertisers, politicians and debaters use to manipulate people. Formal Logic Language with its structure and grammar influences us with inferences and emotionally charged words. Formal Logic therefore, is about the Form or word structure of an argument. The observation of things around us. The Mind fantastically automatically creates Ideas or Icons of the things we experience.