Part 1 Critical thinking and creative thinking are strongly linked and involve questioning the assumptions one holds underlying the customary or habitual ways of thinking and behaving, and being ready to act differently based on critical questioning. ... When a student sets out to carry a research, whether to establish new facts or confirm and add to old facts, they need to use critical and creative thinking. ... Truth can be researched into to confirm or reject some facts, but the critical thinking should always seek to establish the validity of truth. ... This is what one has, and it may inc...

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Pierce then analyzes the a priori method, which he characterizes as thinking "as one is inclined to think," with propositions "agreeable to reason". ... Since our notion of truth does not change whether it is genuine or not, he contends that " a method should be found by which our beliefs may be caused by nothing human, but by some external permanency – by something upon which our thinking has no effect." Pierce writes that the scientific method presumes that "realities affect our senses according to regular laws, and, though our sensations are as different as our relations to the obje...

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Putting into perspective, many of us have a job, but when have more of a philosophical thinking process, before you can come to a conclusion, it has to be determined what reasoning was used to get there. ... My perception is that philosophy is important, a good way to learn or know things as well as helps improve our critical thinking skills. ...

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