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Part I The Very Idea of Critical and Creative Thinking |
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The Inseparability of Critical and Creative Thought Criticality assesses; creativity originates |
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Thinking That Grasps the Logic of Things All thought involves systems of meanings. Thinking should assess what it creates |
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Reasoning as a Creative Act Every genuine act of figuring out anything is a new making, a new series of creative acts |
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Creative Genius -- an Exception? History teaches us that great minds require cultivation and committed intellectual work |
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Language as a Guide Genius is better understood in relation to talent, giftedness, aptitude, capacity, ability, and intelligence |
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The Narrow-Minded Genius Genius is often specialized, limited to particular intellectual domains |
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The Interplay Among Inborn Gifts, Environment, and Self-Motivation Aristotle, Beethoven, Curie, Da Vinci, Galileo, Michelangelo |
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The Questioning Minds of Newton, Darwin, and Einstein Newton, Darwin, and Einstein exemplify the importance of questioning and commitment in developing genius |
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Creativity--Not Mystified Creativity is best understood in simple everyday thought |
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The Elements of Thought Thinking is better understood and assessed when its elements are identified and analyzed |
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Intellectual Standards Only when we construct and use intellectual standards can we effectively assess thinking |
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Critical Thinking Applied to the Arts Creative production must be critically assessed |
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Part II Critical/Creative Thinking and the Foundations of Meaningfulness |
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Figuring Out the Logic of Things In thinking critically, we take command of the meanings we create |
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Learning Concepts and Language To learn concepts and use language, we must create them through mental acts |
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Critiquing Human Thinking To think well, we must routinely critique our egocentric tendencies and transform irrational thinking into rational thinking |
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Learning Academic Disciplines To learn a discipline, we must create its system in our minds and critically assess the systems we create |
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Questioning To conceive and formulate fruitful questions, we must call upon both creativity and criticality |
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Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening Reading, writing, speaking, and listening are all dialogical, requiring multiple acts of assessment and creativity |
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