Critical thinking
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Critical thinking consists of mental processes of discernment, analyzing and evaluating. It includes all possible processes of reflecting upon a tangible or intangible item in order to form a solid judgment that reconciles scientific evidence with common sense.
Critical thinkers gather information from all senses, verbal and/or written expressions, reflection, observation, experience and reasoning. Critical thinking has its basis in intellectual criteria that go beyond subject-matter divisions and which include: clarity, credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance and fairness.
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See also
- Argument mapping
- Cognitive bias
- Credibility
- Criticism
- Empirical knowledge
- Facilitation (business)
- Fallacy
- Foundation for Critical Thinking
- Inquiry
- Intellectual virtue
- Logical argument
- Problem solving
- Pseudoscience
- Psychological manipulation
- Rationality
- Rationality and power
- Reason
- Reasoning
- Scientific method
- Self-deception
- Skepticism
- Socratic questioning
- Source criticism
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