Elements of Reasoning
Emerges from a problem or issue
What is Question at Issue or problem to be solved?
Regularly practice and advance accordingly
What is a practicing thinker?
By building on its strengths while reducing its weaknesses
What is improving thinking?
Requiring reasoning but with more than one defensible answer
What is question of judgment?
Give details necessary for someone to understand exactly what is meant
What is precision?
Evidence that is gathered and reported clearly, fairly, and accurately
What is information, data, and experiences?
Faced with significant problems in our thinking
What is a challenged thinker?
It analyzes, it evaluates, and it improves thinking
What are the components of Critical Thinking?
One right answer
What is question of fact?
Directly connected with and bears upon the issue at hand
What is relevant?
Achieve some objective, satisfy some desire, or fulfill some need.
What is purpose, goal, or end
Try to improve but without regular practice
What is a beginning thinker?
By figuring out its strengths and weaknesses
What is evaluating thinking?
Includes economic, political, social/sociological, psychological, biological, educational, religious, and cultural
What are the domains of thinking?
Represent something in accordance with the way it actually is
What is accuracy?
Theories, principles, axioms, and rules implicit in our reasoning
What is concepts, theories, and ideas?
Unaware of significant problems in our thinking
What is an unreflective Thinker?
The systematic monitoring of thought with the goal of improvement.
What is Critical Thinking?
Many answers
What is question of preference?
Treats an extremely complex issue superficially
What is Depth?
Broad, flexible, justifiable and stated clearly
What is point of view of frame of reference?
Committed to lifelong practice and are beginning to internalize intellectual virtues
What is an advanced thinker?
By focusing on the parts of thinking in any situation
What is analyzing thinking?
Integrated, disciplined approach to thinking
What is Socratic Thinking?
A gateway standard
What is clarity?