There's one thing that confuses me. Critical thinking is all about organizing one’s thought processes and making sense of them right? But at the same time, I cant help noticing how our thoughts are so convoluted and so dense that in some ways, they really cant be organized into structured sentences which lead to practical conclusions…thought processes just don’t work that way…more often than not, our thoughts are so intangible and fluid; one thought simply drifts into another until it becomes a web of interconnected, sporadic thoughts..and that’s just the way it is, that’s how human beings think…how are we supposed to gather them and mould them into something that makes sense when sometimes, thoughts are better left as a nonsensical jumble?
Critical thinking certainly allows you to rationalize and extricate meaning from things that would have otherwise not made any sense and I appreciate that but I just want to know the extent to which our thoughts-which are absorbed/created in so many vast ways- should or could be properly structured?
I kinda agree with you Nabiha. Our thought is really complex. But as Sir has been saying, critical thinking isn't exactly an answer to everything. I thinki it helps us station and order our thoughts at most times. If it is overwhelming, we choose not to do it. But CT isn't reallly perfect. It's just one process that is trying to helpus rationalize our thoguths and emotions.
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ReplyDeleteCT is more than just "all about...". This is a generalization.
"thought processes just don't work that way". How do you know what your thought process is? Have you articulated - literally written it down - ever, against a context or issue that you've been thinking about?
This is precisely one core purpose of the CT model & of CT in general: to help structure & organize your thoughts according to some regimen, as opposed to none (= egocentric, fallacious, narrow, cluttered, unprocessed).
More than to 'extricate' (pull out) meaning, CT actually gives you the ability to assing/create meaning to thoughts that have a specific identity which in turn is formulated / articulated into words/sentences.
Regards,
Faheem
Sir, i have a question for you
ReplyDeleteis concentration part of critical thinking and if yes to what extent?
for instance their so many thoughts how do we make out our thoughts and concentrate on the main point?
i dont know if its correct or not but those who have conentration is their critical thinking affected?
yes exactly i agree with you sir, CT is quite a generalized topic which has critical solutions to almost everything its on us how we evaluate stuff and get to a solution
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