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Provide examples and applications for the following common elements of Critical Thinking:

1) perception

2) assumption

3) argument

4) fallacy

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Defines the common elements of critical thinking such as perception, assumption, argument, and fallacy.

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Critical Thinking
Four critical thinking skills include perception, assumption, argument, and fallacy. These four skills will be defined and shown in a real life example in this paper.
Perception
Normally people tend to think about the world around them through what they see and not what is needed to be seen; people tend to think in terms of what is expected to be seen. People's perception is founded on past experiences and people tend to perceive and think about situations and others from ideas that have already formed. The ideas that have been formed are called schema. Often people distort the truth in order to fit it into his or her existing ...

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