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Discuss the critical thinking tools of analysis

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1.All reasoning has a purpose
-Take time to state your purpose clearly
-Distinguish your purpose from related purposes
-Check periodically to be sure you are still on target
-Choose significant and realistic purposes

2.All reasoning is an attempt to figure out something, to settle question, to and solve problems
-Take time to clearly and precisely state the question at issue
-Express the question in several ways to clarify its meaning and scope
-Break the question in sub questions
-if the question has one right answer, is it a matter of opinion, or requires reasoning from more than one point of view.

3.All reasoning is based on Assumptions
-Clearly identify your assumption and determine whether they are justifiable
-Consider how your assumptions are shaping your point of view

4.All reasoning is done from some point of view
-Identify your point of view
-Seek other points of view and identify their strengths as well as their weaknesses
-Strive to be fair-minded in evaluating all point of view

5.All reasoning is based on Data, information and evidence
-Restrict your claims to those supported by the data you have
-Search for information that opposes your position as well as information that support it
-Make sure that all information used is clear, accurate and relevant to the question at issue
-Make sure you have gathered sufficient information

5.All reasoning expressed through, and shaped by concepts and ideas
-Identify key concepts and explain them clearly
-Consider alternatives concepts or alternatives definitions to concepts
-Make sure you are using concepts with care and precision

5.All reasoning contains inference or interpretations by which we draw conclusions and give meaning to data
-Infer only what the evidence implies
-inferences for their consistency with each other
-Identify assumption which lead to your inferences

6. All reasoning leads somewhere or has implications and consequences
-Trace the implications and consequences that follow from your reasoning
-Search for negative as well as positive implications
-Consider all possible consequences

Titany answered the question on August 12, 2021 at 08:08

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