Different Thinking Processes

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Traditional Logic versus Fuzzy Thinking
A short article by Julia L. Keefer looks at the rapid advancement of "fuzzy logic" in economics, mathematics, and the sciences. For those comforted by the idea that technical writing is "just the facts and nothing but the facts," a more unsettling view is presented.
Work Styles Preference Survey
University of Minnesota-Duluth leadership survey that examines different working and thinking styles.
Howard Gardner and Multiple Intelligence Links
A cluster of sites centered around Harvard educator Howard Gardner's theory of seven different thinking styles, or "Multiple Intelligences." A good introduction to the theory can also be found in his book Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi (New York: BasicBooks, 1993).
Systems Thinking
Asystem is defined as "An organization or assemblage of things connected, associated, or interdependent, so as to form a complex unity; a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement according to some scheme or plan." As opposed to a more linear style, many are looking outside direct line thinking, to contextualize or bring in associations.

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