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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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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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Exactly this.

5:34 AM · Oct 8, 2021Twitter Web App

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Ah interesting. I think I move between the 2 quite arbitrarily. Like... I'll try to apply a framework. But if I can't find one I like, I just sit in the stew. I get suspicious on both ends. Too much stew is no good. Things fitting too perfectly into frameworks also no good.

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Are you familiar with

@Meaningness

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Nebulosity | Meaningness

Meaningness is cloud-like: nebulous. It is real, but impossible to completely pin down.