Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

1. Elements of thought

   • Question at issue
     • It is to know a problem and understand it
     • Question it in order to know more about it
   • Purpose
     • Your goals to achieve
     • Your objectives to accomplish
   • Information
     • Data gathered
     • Facts
     • Observations
     • Past experiences
   • Interpretations and inferences
     • Conclusions you have arrived to
     • Final ideas of a subject
   • Concepts
     • Definitions
     • Theories
     • Laws
     • Principles
     • Models
   • Assumptions
     • Things taken for granted
     • Presuppositions
     • Axioms
   • Implications and consequences
     • "What happens if"
     • The effects of actions
   • Point of View
     • A situation from your perspective
     • The way you see things, from your orientation and your frames of reference