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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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What books should I read to learn how to take apart arguments better?

I want to know to be better at finding my own biases and and assumptions and other people's too, but since I have no one that wants to engage in debates over beliefs that are outside politics I wanted to read something like Discourses or books that state a methodology to analyse and take apart ideas and arguments.
gpt
It also helps to learn by simply doing. Oftentimes, you don't increase critical thinking or reading comprehension by reading a book about critical thinking or reading comprehension. These skills simply "emerge" out of close engagement with good work. Try reading any good work of philosophy, and then working out what exactly the claims are. You can even post here, and more experienced philosophers will help guide you if and when you go wrong. (It may also be helpful to read papers that were written more recently.) 

For example, you can read something like Shelly Kagan's "What's wrong with speciesism?" to see if you can figure out what the thesis is. You can do the same with a paper like Susan Wolff's "Moral Saints". Try to see if you can distill the thesis down to a single proposition. Or, try Sharon Street's "In Defense of Future Tuesday Indifference". Really try to figure out what the essential claims and argumentative strategies are.