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On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org> wrote:The etymology springs from kritikos: krites - judge, krino - decide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinkingBut Google says:
bc what he thought by the term.
1. a person who expresses an unfavourable opinion of something.critic
synonyms: detractor, censurer, attacker, fault-finder, carper, backbiter,
caviller, reviler, vilifier, traducer, disparager, denigrator, deprecator,
belittler; informalknocker, nitpicker; <<<
In my opinion, "Critical thinking" must inherit from "critic", otherwise
it does not pass the self-check - "the foundation-stone of critical
thinking "check the work"" :-)