Sunday, September 6, 2009

Paul and Elder - agree or disagree

Elements of Thoughts
I do agree with this essence of critical thinking, because of this approach does help you to expand your thinking. Point of View, the frame of reference, all of us do have a point of view, may be unlike from others, but we do draw our attitudes to be agreeable with each other. Purpose, a goal, we always has a goal to think and we cannot think without an objective. If there is no reason, what is the point to think. Question at issue, we have to think because there is a question front of us and we need to figure out, figuring out is a way of critical thinking. You need data or facts to appear front of you before you think. It is called, information, it could be data, facts, evidence, observations, experiences, or reasons. There are two elements is similar to the information element, concepts. Concepts could be a theory, a definition, a law, a principle, or a model. Or assumptions, which an answer to a question was estimated, it may be right or wrong. Everybody does make presuppositions every day. At last, there are implications and consequences which follow logically, a result. Also there is the element of interpretation and inference. There always a conclusion with a definition, answering the solution including thinking too. It connected to my personal experience, thinking of many things such like solving a math problem, thinking which formula (information) is correct, presuming the equation is accurate (assumption), and then giving the conclusion with an answer (interpretation).

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