Critical Thinking Skills

The “Critical Thinking (CT) Skills” are a set of skills that are often associated with the subject of critical thinking.

CT skills are super useful to most people in most contexts. That is, they are general skills.

The elements of the set are {analysis, synthesis, questioning, defining, classification, prioritizing, compare/contrast, and so forth.}

Skill: A skill refers to something that an actor (person or group) does.

List of CT Skills

Analysis This skill involves breaking something down into its component parts.

Synthesis: This skill involves combing things together such that the combination is excellent.

Prioritizing: This skill involves figure out how to rank order items in a set from most to least useful.

Defining Things:

Compare and Contrast: Figuring how two things are similar and how they are different.

Questioning: This involves asking useful questions and responding to questions in a useful way.

Dons Definitions

such that the most useful itFiguring out what is most important or useful. 3. Definition: Creating a definition using the best framework. 1. Intensional definition 2. Extensional definition

Nomenclature

A Skills refers to something that a person does well as in Bill is a good driver, Bill is a good cook, Bill writes excellent novels.

A skill is a CT skill when the following items are true:

1. The skill is general; that is, it is useful for all actors in all contexts.

2. The skill is often associated with the subject of critical thinking.

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