Scientific and Critical thinking

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Scientific and Critical thinking

Critical thinking is thinking correctly for oneself that successfully leads to the most reliable answers.

Scientific thinking is the practice of the scientific method

Scientific method is used to justify scientific knowledge thus making it realiable.

Are based on 3 things:

Skepticism (Questioning one's beleifs and conclusions)

Change minds with new realiable evidence or sound reasons

Test your beleifs and their outcomes

Deception and self-deception

Matching with objective reality then they are relaiable

Rationaism ( logical resoning)

Wastes time, inefficient and sometimes unsuccesful

Often struggles with one's will

Must be learned and practiced

Empirical evidence (evidence susceptible to one's senses)

Also known as Natural evidence

Common alternative is Authoritarian evidence

Only type used to make vital decicions