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Critical thinking is the process of analyzing available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments to make sound conclusions or informed choices. It involves recognizing underlying assumptions, providing justifications for ideas and actions, evaluating these justifications through comparisons with varying perspectives, and assessing their rationality and potential consequences. [1]
The sandpile model is a cellular automaton originally defined on a rectangular grid (checkerboard) of the standard square lattice.To each vertex (site, field) (,) of the grid, we associate a value (grains of sand, slope, particles) (,) {,,,}, with {,,,} referred to as the (initial) configuration of the sandpile.
A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals.Linguist John Swales defined discourse communities as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals."
The notion of critical understanding is closely related to the concept of Critical Thinking, described as, ‘reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do.’ [7] Critical thinking has also been described as, ‘thinking about thinking’, [8] specifically in relation to John Dewey’s work on ‘the problem of training thought’. [9]
A discussion group is a group of individuals, typically who share a similar interest, who gather either formally or informally to discuss ideas, solve problems, or make comments. Common methods of conversing including meeting in person, conducting conference calls , using text messaging , or using a website such as an Internet forum . [ 1 ]
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A critical friend is a supportive person who can ask difficult questions using critical thinking to judge a situation. [1] The term has its origins in critical pedagogy education reforms in the 1970s and arose out of the self-appraisal activity which is attributed to Desmond Nuttall. [2] One of the most widely used definitions is from 1993,
Routh writes that he has been reading about the life of founding father Hamilton and “crying” over his death in a duel with former Vice President Aaron Burr.