Critical Thinking

1. What is critical thinking?

Critical thinking is that which yields clear, unbiased knowledge to any observer. It leads to knowledge as opposed to just beliefs or opinions. The knowledge obtained by critical thinking is supported by empirical and/or rational evidence. …

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2. The Socratic method

The Socratic method could be one of the methods useful for building knowledge. The method is attributed to Socrates who used to use it as a dialectic (loosely: an argument) in order to extract truth from any statement or set of statements. Architects often speak loosely about architecture if they do the explanation AFTER it is seen in the real world. Here is why I use the term "loosely": The real architecture is out there in an form that cannot very easily de-compressed from its existence to the theory/theories that were used to bring it to its existence. …

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