What I Have Learned So Far!

Cindy Krievins

Critical Thinking is a skill.

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Critical Thinking is a Skill

Critical Thinking deals with validity, not Truth.

Critical Thinking means never being 100% sure.

When we are 100% sure we are not open to new possibilities or new information

The validity of an argument is measured on the continuum of

Certainty.

A Claim is a statement against the status quo.

We argue three types of claims.

FACTVALUE

POLICY

Fact Value Policy

Participants have argumentative burdens

Issues are questions and

crucial to making decisions.

There is a difference

between being knowledgeable, intelligent and

thinking.