Critical thinking is purposeful and reflective judgment about what to believe or do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments. Critical thinking might involve determining the meaning and significance of what is observed or expressed, or, concerning a given inference or argument, determining whether there is adequate justification to accept the conclusion as true. Hence, Fisher & Scriven define critical thinking as "Skilled, active, interpretation and evaluation of observations, communications, information, and argumentation."[1] Critical thinking gives due consideration to the evidence, the context of judgment, the relevant criteria for making the judgment well, the applicable methods or techniques for forming the judgment, and the applicable theoretical constructs for understanding the nature of the problem and the question at hand. Critical thinking employs not only logic but broad intellectual criteria such as clarity, credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, significance and fairness. In contemporary usage "critical" has the connotation of expressing disapproval,[2] which is not always true of critical thinking. A critical evaluation of an argument, for example, might conclude that it is good.
Now you’ve done it. You just buzzkilled the Red Dawn fantasy. Damn.
My extremely brilliant and accomplished PhD dissertation chairman . . . a Mormon Bishop . . .
when I asked him how he handled the Book of Mormon being rewritten so many times yet supposedly never changed . . .
he said
“Life is sooo complex, just about any cock-a-may-mee explanation will do.”
How have your simplistic biases tended to work out for you so far?
You might get set for a change in their effectiveness.
You might get set for a change in their effectiveness.
Particularly as predictors of complex behaviors of complex systems coupled with complex demonic forces and systems.