Critical Thinking Terms T - Z

Question 1

To impart knowledge or skills.

Answer 1

TEACH

Question 2

A systematic statement of principles involved in a subject; a formulation of apparent relationships or underlying principles of certain observed phenomena that have been verified to some extent.

Answer 2

THEORY

Question 3

To exercise the mental faculties so as to form ideas and arrive at conclusions.

Answer 3

THINK

Question 4

Conformity to knowledge, fact, actuality, or logic; a statement proven to be or accepted as true, not false or erroneous.

Answer 4

TRUTH

Question 5

One who has not developed intellectual skills; is naive, conforming, easily manipulated, dogmatic, easily confused, unclear, closed-minded, narrow-minded, careless in word choice, inconsistent, unable to distinguish evidence from interpretation.

Answer 5

UNCRITICAL PERSON

Question 6

Not clearly, precisely, or definitely expressed or stated; not sharp, certain, or precise in thought, feeling, or expression.

Answer 6

VAGUE

Question 7

That which follows, according to the logic of the language.

Answer 7

VERBAL IMPLICATION

Question 8

(1) Involvement in promoting personal advantage, usually at the expense of others;
(2) people functioning as a group to pursue collective selfish goals and exerting influences that enable them to profit at the expense of others.

Answer 8

VESTED INTEREST

Question 9

(1) Those who do not hold themselves or those with whom they ego-identify to the same intellectual standards to which they hold opponents;
(2) those who have not learned how to reason empathically within points of view or frames of reference with which they disagree;
(3) those who tend to think monologically (within one narrow perspective);
(4) those who do not genuinely accept, though they may verbally espouse, the values of critical thinking;
(5) those who use the intellectual skills of critical thinking selectively and self-deceptively to foster and serve their selfish interests at the expense of truth;
(6) those who use critical-thinking skills to identify flaws in the reasoning of others and sophisticated arguments to refute others’ arguments before giving those arguments due consideration;
(7) those who are able to justify their irrational thinking with highly skilled rationalizations.

Answer 9

WEAK-SENSE CRITICAL THINKERS