What Is Critical Thinking?

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If you want to distinguish the truth from a lie, you need to use your critical thinking skills. But what exactly is critical thinking? Critical thinking is a calculated thought process that helps you use reasoning and logic and a conclusion about an issue or idea. You analyze it to help you present evidence to support your ideas, rather than accepting your personal reasoning as sufficient proof. Critical thinking allows you to dig under the surface to understand and articulate a subject or point of view.
In this class I have learned to really dig deep into literature to find hidden ideas and thoughts. The exercises I have learned in this class has made me a better person in term of making decisions based on data not feelings. I am very

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