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Critical thinking is a form of what we call metacognition.
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It involves the analysis of the process of thought, through which we, or others, reason.
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A central tenant of critical thinking would be that an opinion, idea or belief
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can only ever be as good as the process of reasoning that went into creating it.
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None of us were born with a superior form of truth,
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no one has a privileged experience on reality without earning it.
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With critical thinking, we're seeking objective knowledge and that is achieved by adhering to certain standards in our reasoning,
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to ensure equality in the process and thus equality in the outcome.
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In this section we'll be exploring this process of reasoning,
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its different elements and the standards of thinking we can use to help us reason better.
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Standards such as clarity or accuracy;
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knowledge that is clear or accurate is always going to be better than knowledge that is unclear or inaccurate.
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These are examples of universal standards that will help us to create knowledge that is relevant, sound and accurate.
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And it's these standards of reasoning that helps us think better that we'll be talking about in this section to the course.