Critical Thinking: Intellectual Standards Essential to Reasoning well within Every Domain of Human Thought, Part 3

Autor/inn/en	Elder, Linda; Paul, Richard
Titel	Critical Thinking: Intellectual Standards Essential to Reasoning well within Every Domain of Human Thought, Part 3
Quelle	In: Journal of Developmental Education, 37 (2013) 2, S.32-33 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0894-3907
Schlagwörter	Critical Thinking; Standards; Languages; Language Usage + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritisches Denken; Standard; Language; Sprache; Sprachgebrauch
Abstract	In the last two columns in this critical thinking series we briefly introduced and discussed the concept of intellectual standards in connection with natural languages. We presented nine essential intellectual standards: clarity, precision, accuracy, relevance, depth, breadth, logicalness, significance, and fairness. These nine intellectual standards are part of a much broader set of intellectual standards found in all natural languages. Natural, or ordinary, languages are those languages we speak every day and are to be distinguished from technical languages such as those developed in mathematics, formal logic, and other specialized fields. Throughout recorded history, scholars within disciplines and skilled thinkers in all parts of human life have applied universal intellectual standards to human reasoning, at differing levels and to varying degrees. The concept of criticality itself presupposes adherence to relevant intellectual standards (such as accuracy, relevance, logic, and so forth). In this column, we briefly analyze the concept of intellectual standards as an intellectual construct. Further, we explore the important realization that though humans routinely use standards to determine what to believe and how to act, these standards are not always intellectual in nature. [See EJ1067273 for Part 1, and EJ1067269 for Part 2.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01