One of the Points in "The Critical Thinker's Guide to Reasoning

question 25

Essay

One of the points in "The Critical Thinker's Guide to Reasoning" is to examine and evaluate the origin of your point of view about an issue to fully understand how your perceptions were formed.You can ask questions such as how did your point of view develop, and have you always held this view or did it evolve over time? Choose an issue that you have a clear point of view, or opinion, about and evaluate the origin(s) of that view.After you have finished, consider whether this close evaluation has caused you to change anything about your point of view.

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Definitions:

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