• Good or effective thinking can take place on just System 1, but critical thinking always involves the rational and multi-sided application of System 2;
  • Critical thinking implies trying to scrap the surface;
  • Critical thinking is the ability to understand a problem, explain it and consider different solutions to it and its consequences;
  • Critical thinking always draws from several events, trends and analysis to draw out meanings;
  • I will call critical thinking as the “right thinking” which is completely unbiased only while we are trying to get into the depth of ideas/thoughts/issues;
  • I think “critical thinking” is a more meaningful term;
  • It’s all to do with the depth. Depth of reasoning, depth of evidence to back up, depth of initial claim. A lot of naïve thinkers find it easier to make a claim and identify the evidence or premises that support it. They often seem to struggle to use reasoning and logical to join the two together in a persuasive manner;
  • CT is deep thinking about solutions and creativity;
  • “Good or effective thinking”, is how logically one thinks. One can be very effective at logical puzzles but lack the depth of thinking to see what is the purpose of logical thinking;
  • Yes, critical thinking would involve perspective-taking and in-depth communication, whereas good or effective thinking can be superficial.
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