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what are three critical thinking questions for Clarity
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if — is not “exact to the necessary level of detail,” then what intellectual standard needs attention
Precision
what are three critical thinking questions for Precision
Details, Exactness, and specificity:
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what are three critical thinking questions for Relevance
How does that relate to the problem?
How does that bear on the question?
How does that help us with the issue?
what are three critical thinking questions for Depth
What factors make this a difficult problem?
What are some of the complexities of this question?
What are some of the difficulties we need to deal with?
what are three critical thinking questions for Breadth
Do we need to look at this from another perspective?
Do we need to consider another point of view?
Do we need to look at this in other ways?
what are three critical thinking questions for Logic
Does all this make sense together?
Does your first paragraph fit in with your last?
Does what you say follow from the evidence?
what are three critical thinking questions for Significance
Is this the most important problem to consider?
Is this the central idea to focus on?
Which of these facts are most important?
what are three critical thinking questions for Fairness
do you have any vested interest in this issue?
are you sympathetically representing the viewpoints of others?
if — is not “Justifiable,… , or is self-serving / one-sided,” then what intellectual standard needs attention
Fairness
if — is not “focusing on the important, not trivial,” then what intellectual standard needs attention
Significance
if — does not “make sense together, or does have contradictions,” then what intellectual standard needs attention
Logic
if — is not “encompassing multiple viewpoints,” then what intellectual standard needs attention
Breadth
if — is not “containing complexities and multiple interrelationships,” then what intellectual standard needs attention
Depth
if — is not “relating to the matter at hand,” then what intellectual standard needs attention
Relevance