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New page: '''Critical thinking''' is an approach to analyzing the world around you. It draws heavily on ideas from the Scientific revolution and advocates an approach of data acquisition and rat...
'''Critical thinking''' is an approach to analyzing the world around you. It draws heavily on ideas from the [[Scientific revolution]] and advocates an approach of data acquisition and rational assessment. When applying critical thinking the goal is to collect as much relevant [[data]] as possible, and then asses that data for accuracy, and finally use the data to arrive at the most justified conclusions possible. Critical thinking is an on going process and even ideas that one feels are well supported need to occasionally reevaluate them to see if new information might lead to a change of mind.
Critical thinking uses many aspects of [[formal logic]] and [[informal logic]]. It also focuses on discovering [[bias]], [[propaganda]] , [[delusion]] and [[deception]] both in the sources of ones information and ones own views and approaches to reasoning problems out.
Critical thinking uses many aspects of [[formal logic]] and [[informal logic]]. It also focuses on discovering [[bias]], [[propaganda]] , [[delusion]] and [[deception]] both in the sources of ones information and ones own views and approaches to reasoning problems out.