UNIVERSAL INTELLECTUAL STANDARDS

UNIVERSAL INTELLECTUAL STANDARDS

1. What are they used for?

   • They help us and start to form as a part of our inner voice, which then guides us to better judgment

2. Which are they?

   • FAIRNESS
   • LOGIC
   • BREADTH
   • DEPTH
   • RELEVANCE
   • PRECISION
   • ACCURACY
   • CLARITY

3. Standards which must be applied to thinking whenever one is interested in checking the quality of reasoning about a problem, issue, or situation.

   • What are they?

4. CRITICAL THINKING

   • ELEMENTS OF THOUGHT
     • What are they?
       • They are a series of thinking processes we use every day. We can learn how to control them to create better outcomes. "Whenever we think, we think for a purpose within a point of view based on assumptions leading to implications and consequences. "
     • They are used every day, every situation, and on every moment we need to think critically to obtain a better outcome.
       • What are they used for?
     • Which are they?
       • IMPLICATIONS
       • POINT OF VIEW
       • ASSUMPTIONS
       • CONCEPTS
       • IMPLICATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES
       • INFORMATION
       • QUESTION AT ISSUE
       • PURPOSE
     • The Elements of Reasoning and the Intellectual Standards. (n.d.). Retrieved March 12, 2015, from http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/the-elements-of-reasoning-and-the-intellectual-standards/480

5. Universal Intellectual Standards. (n.d.). Retrieved March 12, 2015, from http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/universal-intellectual-standards/527