DEEP ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL THINKING
Critical thinking is a deep analysis of the available evidence, facts, arguments, and observations to form a clear judgment. Critical thinking is complex; several different explanations and definitions exist, which in general include the sceptical, unbiased, and rational analysis or the evaluation of factual evidence. Critical thinking is self-disciplined, self-monitored, self–corrective, and self-directive thinking. In simple words, Critical thinking is the power or ability to think rationally and clearly and understand and break down logical connections between ideas.
Critical thinking has been the subject of much debate and consideration since the days of early Greek philosophers such as Plato and Socrates and continues to be debated to this day, including the ability to find spiced unreal news. Although critical thinking makes use of some formal procedures, it is often viewed as a type of informal logic.
Unlike formal reasoning processes, which are limited to deductive methods (decision theory, logic, statistics), critical thinking allows for a wide range of reasoning methods, including formal and informal logic, linguistic analysis, scientific experimental methods, historical and textual methods, and philosophical methods like Socratic questioning and reasoning by counter-example.
Steps of critical thinking:
Determine the issue or question.
Explain your problem, not to others but yourself first. Think about the problem and clean it up to its base. Get to know what the actual problem is.
Gather information, viewpoints, and arguments.
Search for various sources of information that will give you different viewpoints of the world around you.
Examine and assess the information.
Are the sources trustworthy? Are the conclusions given by them based on proofs or are they technically argumentative? Is there enough evidence or data for backing up this hypothesis?
Make a list of assumptions.
Are you sure that the information and sources you discovered are not biased? Are you sure that your search for the solutions was not skewed?
Determine the importance of the situation.
What is the most crucial piece of information? Is the sample size large enough? Is every argument and point of view relevant to the topic you’re trying to solve?
Make a choice/come to a conclusion.
Start to think about which (if any) of the foreseeable conclusions that are possible to adhere to or are feasible and are suitably supported. Get into the depth of each option by looking into all the positives and negatives in each of them.
Make a presentation or communicate.
The way you deliver your content matters. Present your information in form of a good presentation with proofs backing it up.
The components of critical thinking:
Observation: When a person notices or watches any activity going on around, he starts thinking about it sub-consciously. In critical thinking, the sub-conscious part is brought into to consciousness and now is being thought with more clarity and logical reasonings.
Feelings: A person starts thinking critically about something when the issue, problem, or the event, in general, is affecting him emotionally. The perplexity of the problem affecting makes the person think critically and try to get a solution to get out of it.
Wandering: finding a question to find a solution to and the question leading to more questions and getting deeper into stuff.
Knowledge: A person uses stored information of the matter and generates answers or infers what would happen or can be expected from the probability of an answer.
Experimenting: One lays out and carries out a general experiment or a pro-systematic observation and finds out whether the results inferred from a probable answer will occur or not.