Becoming Optimally Human: An Approach toward Critical Thinking.

Menefee, Emory

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Publication Date: 1987

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Becoming Optimally Human: An Approach toward Critical Thinking.

Menefee, Emory

ETC: A Review of General Semantics, v44 n4 p335-38 Win 1987

Discusses critical thinking as the process of moving fluently among abstraction levels. Defines three components involved in fluency of movement: (1) knowledge, or an awareness of the existence of abstraction levels; (2) payoff, or the reason for acquiring fluency; and (3) timing, or a consciousness of abstraction levels at a given time and place. (MM)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Critical Thinking, Intuition, Logical Thinking, Problem Solving, Semantics

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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