Dawn Bentley
CRT/205
What Is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinking is the talent to rationally think. It includes the ability to involve in reflective and liberated thinking. While involved in critical thinking, you are able to understand the reasonable connection with ideas. You will also be able to identify, build, and evaluate opinions. Also, critical thinking helps you identify and find the importance in the ideas of what you are trying to figure out.
Critical thinking should not be mixed up with being confrontational or being critical of other people or their opinions, it plays out to be a method that helps us obtain knowledge, strengthen arguments, and improve our philosophies.
Critical thinking
is closely comparable to “out-of-the-box” thinking. It chases the idea of the less popular approach to coming up with a solution or idea. Critical thinking allows someone to become very creative with their ideas, because there are so many approaches to critical thinking. It is not about gathering information, or having a great memory and being able to memorize all of the information linked with an idea.
This type of thinking is a way of deciding if a statement is true, false, or somewhat true. Critical thinking does involve some self-control because it is not something that should come from persuasive thoughts, but actual thoughts. Before we say something more about conclusions, we should make a distinction between claims that are objective and those that are subjective. Critical thinking (10th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. References
Critical thinking (10th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.