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This is actually a really interesting way of thinking about critical thinking! Definitely never thought of it that way before ...

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Sam

@11v11Sam

Oct 7, 2021

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I have started to think of critical thinking as the ability to "stew on the messiness of reality" without the lens of "frameworks layered between" your perception and an experience i.e. connecting your own dots commoncog.com/blog/reality-w h/t @ejames_c

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My distaste of frameworks mostly stems from fear that it would lock me into certain ways of seeing the world. Which *has* bitten me (and my colleagues) in the past. I buy

@vaughn_tan

’s argument that sitting with the messiness of uncertainty is important.

Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

Oct 7, 2021

But would you call this ability critical thinking? It’s an interesting thought, but I’m not so sure …

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Cheers, Cedric. I find a lot of your work relevant in interesting ways and thus quite insightful.

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Thank you for the thought provoking tweet!

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Why can't you both sit with messiness and use frameworks?

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ime the frameworks are too tempting

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Is your conclusion that we should be able to identify the right framework to use in particular situations and be fully aware of (and be prepared to live with/work around) their flaws?