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Characteristics of Critical Thinker
Barriers to Critical Thinking A
Types of Narrow-Mindedness
Faith and Reason
Integrating Faith and Reason
100
The ability to analyze and logically support one's beliefs.
What are analytical skills?
100
Allowing rigidity, impulsiveness, lack of analysis and immaturity to get in the way of critical thinking.
What is resistance?
100
Believing that one is the center of all things
What is egocentrism?
100
Reason, emotion and appetites
What are Plato's three parts to the soul?
100
Believing and trusting in a religious deity
What is faith?
200
Being able to listen, speak and write well.
What is effective communication?
200
Often repeated claims like "It's all relative."
What are cliches?
200
Believing that one's group or culture is inherently superior to all others
What is ethnocentrism?
200
Supporting a claim based on evidence
What is reason?
200
The idea that evidence always supersedes beliefs
What is rationalism?
300
Being able to adapt to changes
What is flexibility?
300
Purposefully not seeing certain people or information with different ideas from one's own.
What is avoidance?
300
Belief that humans are superior to all other things
What is anthropocentrism?
300
List of entities from least to perfectly rational
What is Aquinas's Great Chain of Being?
300
The idea that faith always supersedes reason
What is fideism?
400
The capability to balance belief and doubt.
What is open-minded skepticism?
400
Going along with something, even if one disagrees with it, in order to fit in with one's peers.
What is conformity?
400
Being concerned that one might have to defend one's beliefs
What is fear of challenge?
400
The claim that reason is an adaptation that developed over millenia
What is Darwin's objection to the GCB?
400
Belief and reason must be consistent with each other
What is critical rationalism?
500
Being able to look at new solutions to conflicts
What is creative problem solving?
500
Intentionally avoiding learning about something, even if the information is readily available
What is ignorance?
500
The belief that the information received from authority figures is always and unwavering true
What is absolutism?
500
The Unmoved Mover, The Uncaused Case, The Cosmological Argument, The Argument from Degree, The Argument from Design
What are Aquinas' five proofs for God's existence?
500
There is no clear answer as to which God one should believe in or which religious beliefs one should hold
What is the problem with fideism?