leslie whidden's List: Critical thinking

• "Critical thinking is thinking that attempts to arrive at a judgment only after honestly evaluating alternatives with respect to available evidence and arguments" (Hatcher and Spencer).
• "Critical thinking is thinking that attempts to arrive at a judgment only after honestly evaluating alternatives with respect to available evidence and arguments" (Hatcher and Spencer).
• "the intellectual disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observations, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication as a guide to belief and action" (1992). This sounds a lot like a definition by a committee, and is both confusing and unappealing.
• "the intellectual disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observations, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication as a guide to belief and action" (1992). This sounds a lot like a definition by a committee, and is both confusing and unappealing.
• "the intellectual disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observations, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication as a guide to belief and action" (1992). This sounds a lot like a definition by a committee, and is both confusing and unappealing.

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