Critical
Thinking

Vocabulary of Critical Thinking

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  • accurate
  • ambiguous
  • analyze
  • argue
  • argument
  • to assume
  • assumption
  • authority
  • bias
  • clarify
  • concept
  • conclude/conclusion
  • consistency
  • contradict/contradiction
  • criterion (criteria, pl)
  • critical listening
  • critical person
  • critical reading
  • critical thinking
  • critical writing
  • critique
  • cultural association
  • cultural assumption
  • data
  • domains of thought
  • egocentricity
  • emotion
  • empirical
  • ethnocentricity
  • evaluation
  • evidence
  • explicit
  • fact
  • fair
  • faith
  • fallacy/fallacious
  • higher order learning
  • human nature
  • idea
  • imply/implication
  • infer/inference
  • insight
  • intellectual autonomy
  • intellectual confidence
  • intellectual courage
  • intellectual humility
  • intellectual integrity
  • intellectual virtues
  • interpretation
  • intuition
  • irrational/irrationality
  • judgment
  • justify/justification
  • know
  • knowledge
  • logic
  • opinion
  • perspective
  • precision
  • prejudice
  • premise
  • principle
  • problem
  • problem-solving
  • proof
  • rational/rationality
  • rational emotions
  • reasoned judgment
  • reasoning
  • reciprocity
  • relevant
  • self-deception
  • social contradiction
  • sociocentricity
  • Socratic questioning
  • specify/specific
  • teach
  • theory
  • think
  • truth
  • vague
  • world view