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Critical Thinking Standards - Coggle Diagram
Critical Thinking Standards
Clarity
Definition of Clarity:
Clarity refers to the quality of expressing ideas, arguments, or claims in a manner that is easily understood and free from ambiguity or confusion.
Importance of Clarity:
Clarity is deemed crucial for effective communication and critical thinking. without clarity, miscommunications and misunderstandings can occur.
Fairness
Realism about Bias: Acknowledgment that biases are inevitable to some extent due to individual experiences and cultural backgrounds.
Essential Attribute: Fair-mindedness is crucial for critical thinking.
Unjust Behavior: Failure to respect opposing views, Allowing bias to close minds and hearts, and Holding oneself to different standards than others.
Challenges to Fair Thinking: Resistance to unfamiliar ideas, Prejudgment of issues, Stereotyping outsiders, and Identifying truth with self-interest or group interest.
Attributes of Fair Thinking: Open-mindedness, Impartiality, and Lack of biases and preconceptions.
Relevance
Debater's Trick: Raising Irrelevant Issues: Distraction technique.
Abraham Lincoln's Example: Story of addressing Judge Logan's attire.
Plato's Assertion: No room for tedious and irrelevant discussion. Emphasis on pertinence.
Critical Thinking and Staying On Topic: Lincoln's ploy as a tactic. Jurors' potential critical thinking lapse.
Importance in Meetings and Debates: Avoiding meandering and unproductive discussions
Precision
Sherlock Holmes: Skilled observation. Logical inference. Solves complex
Importance in Various Fields: Medicine. Mathematics. Architecture. Engineering
Daily Life: Cutting through confusion. Insisting on precise answers
Critical Thinking:
Habitual pursuit of precision
Completeness
Examples: Desirable Situations -> Criminal investigations, Jury deliberations, News stories, Driving directions, and Medical diagnoses.
Exceptions: Short, concise contexts
General Preference: Deep > Shallow. Thorough > Spotty/Superficial.
Preferred Thinking Style: Deep. Thorough. Complete.
Consistency
Guiding Principle: Rational behavior relies on consistency ->Deborah J. Bennett quote
Types of Consistency: Diachronic ->Agreement over time (thoughts, words, deeds).
Synchronic-> Agreement in present moment.
Critical Thinkers Integrity: Integral wholeness in beliefs and actions. Avoiding logical and practical inconsistency.
Inconsistencies to Avoid: Logical Inconsistency -> Holding contradictory beliefs.
Practical Inconsistency-> Discrepancy between words and actions.
Essential for Critical Thinking: Logic dictates inconsistency implies falsehood. Critical thinkers seek out inconsistencies.
Accuracy
Importance in Life Navigation: Knowledge as a map. Truth linking to reality.
Computer Analogy: "Garbage in, garbage out". Applies to human thinking
Example: 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: Trump's false claims. Consequences on democracy.
Value of Truth for Critical Thinkers: Passion for accurate, timely information.