Nature of Critical Thinking

Nature of Critical Thinking

  • Submitted By: arussel2
  • Date Submitted: 06/16/2010 4:33 PM
  • Category: Philosophy
  • Words: 360
  • Page: 2
  • Views: 402

First in order to discuss the nature of critical thinking you must first know what it is. Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, and/or evaluating information gathered. Although critical thinking can be described as skillfully applying, analyzing and evaluating information it is not limited to that. Critical thinking is a vast array of ways to understand and analyze logic. The foundation or the basics of critical thinking according to Critical thinking the 9th edition (Moore, Parker) are claims issues and arguments. Claims, issues and arguments are apart of our everyday language whether we know this to be true or not. The first level of the foundation is claims which can also be called statements. These statements can be true or false which is critical thinking comes into play because you have to think logically in order to state whether the claim is true or false. Many claims require little or no critical evaluation (Moore, Parker). The second level of the foundation is issues, issues go hand and hand with claims. If there is a question about whether the claim is true or false an issue is then presented. There are different ways to present an issue the first is to simply ask a question, and second is to place whether in front of the sentence. The third and last level of what I call the foundation is arguments. An argument gives reason for thinking that a claim is true. There are two things that are necessary in order to have an argument a premise and a conclusion. A premise is a claim that is offered as an s reason for believing another claim (Moore, Parker). A conclusion is a claim that a premise is supposed to support (Moore, Parker). In an argument if the premise supports the conclusion this makes it a good argument. Arguments have two different classifications inductive and deductive. A good deductive argument shows that it can not be viable for the...

Similar Essays