ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews some basic sub-skills and some basic logical theory. It suggests that any argument that was advanced in an enquiry at any point should be automatically made tame and logical and clear as an alternating types of things standard tidy up. An extended ethical enquiry is more than a single argument; it is a disciplined and metacognitively thoughtful affair in which successions of unfolding argumentative moves are connected in a deliberate way. Enquiries into a topic can't be entered everywhere but have to be entered somewhere this best occurs with an initial argument that seems to lie at the heart of the issues. Metacognition is comprised of two elements: Metacognitive Reviews and Metacognitive Deliberation. Once an enquiry has gone beyond the initial stages, metacognitive review becomes both more complicated in what it covers. In particular, once beyond an initial criticism, you should think very carefully and explicitly about the inter-relationships of the various arguments in the enquiry.
