This is actually a really interesting way of thinking about critical thinking!
Definitely never thought of it that way before ...
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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 ’s argument that sitting with the messiness of uncertainty is important.
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But would you call this ability critical thinking?
It’s an interesting thought, but I’m not so sure …
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I think the original framing is inside-out; experience is the result of mediation.
IMO the question is always "What framework do we believe we're using and is it different from what we're in-fact using?"
From William James' "Principles of Psychology" (1890), Ch. 11:
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This, and especially that screenshot from William James, is really really good.
Yeah I think sensemaking is a better word for this than critical thinking. Which makes me wonder what the original definition for critical thinking is …
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AFAIK the term comes from John Dewey's "How We Think" (1910)
For him, I think it's not about mediated vs. unmediated, but regulated vs. unregulated, reflective vs. unreflective, controlled vs. uncontrolled.
Like a hand on a steering wheel.
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"The essence of critical thinking is suspended judgment" DOES sound like 'reality without frameworks', though!
Also: *chef's kiss* 👨🍳
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As I understand, Dewey's idea of critical thinking is more like exploring a program with a time travel debugger.
We can't "step out" of experience like we can "step out" of code. So what program/framework are we acting out? Best we can do is set a breakpoint and use the debugger
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So ... it's ... metacognition? I fear this is the start of a longgggg rabbit hole: plato.stanford.edu/entries/critic
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