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Critical Thinking

1. Elements of thought

   • Basic structures that we use when we think
     • Purpose
       • Your goal, objective and what are you trying to accomplish
     • Question at Issue
       • It must be clear and precise enough for it to be researched and debated
     • Information
       • Information must be relevant and accuarate, based on trustful research
     • Interpretation and Inference
       • The interpretation of information
     • Concepts
       • Ideas and theories developed about the question
     • Assumptions
       • Are assumptions made with base on the data that the brain proceeds
     • Implications and consequences
       • The consequences of an option to a problem or the implications of a certain answer of a question
     • Point of view
       • Is limited by yourself and may differ from other people´s way of seeing the same subject

2. Intellectual standars

   • Clarity
     • How you explain easily to understand depending who is listening
   • Accuaracy
     • The condition of being true, correct, precise and without errors
   • Precision
     • Area sets of questions that focus on makin the intellectual thinking more precise
   • Relevance
     • The information is important related to the subject
   • Depth
     • The profundation of a subject beyod the general idea
   • Breadth
     • Viewpoint about an idea being wide and adding more points of view
   • Logic
     • Support of concept one of another, all must make sense and link between each other