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How does the nature of logic relate to critical thinking.

What is critincal thinking ?

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How does the nature of logic relate to critical thinking is determined.

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There are myriad of definitions for critical thinking:

Browne and Keeley (1986) refer to critical thinking as filtering, separating the relevant from the irrelevant.

Chaffee (1985) says that critical thinking is "making sense of our world by carefully examining our thinking and the thinking of others in order to clarify and improve our understanding"

Others (Missimer, 1990; Kahane, 1992; Beardsley, 1975; Freeman, 1993) define critical thinking much more technically: understanding argument, recognizing fallacies, ...

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