Logical Organization and Critical Thinking (12 of 15)

What Is Critical Thinking?

Peter A. Facione, " Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts," Insight Assessment, 2006

Critical thinking is skeptical without being cynical.

It is open-minded without being wishy-wishy.

It is analytical without being nitpicky.
Critical thinking can be decisive without being stuborn,

evaluative without being judgemental, and

forceful without being opinionated.

Critical thinking excludes not only prejudice, but also wishful, sloppy thinking.

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