Critical Thinking Blog #1

Shit. I was driving to one of my jobs after a morning of physics, and realized i hadn't done this critical thinking business... BLAST!!!!! i am such an idiot. so, due to my retardation, i went directly to staples after telling my lovely coworker i would be a bit late, and bought a daily planner type deal. so, maybe i need a little more organizational help than i previously though. so, even though i won't get credit for this, it doesn't hurt to have it anyway, right?

bitchin.

Part 1:

critical thinking: how do i describe it? ew. i guess in straight talk, thinking through situations, or posed problems with the intent of explanation, or future argumentation. according to wikipedia (love it) it would be: the 'mental processes of discernment, analysis and evaluation' la di da. and it says something about common sense. so, street smarts, right? empirical knowledge... someone paid attention in class. excellent.

now it gets tricky. when have i thought critically? me, common sense? cripes. i guess you have to critically think in my physics class, or mostly the lab. in science in general? physics, specifically. you are given equations, told what the variables represent, then you are sent into the lab to experiment, and collect raw data. With that raw data you have to find the other variables, put then in some sort of sensicle order, and then explain what all that means. wow, if i were to reread what i am typing, i don't know that it is coherent. teach me to answer phones and blog at the same time...

when have i not thougth something through critically? all the time, every day? when i was still in high school, i blew off figuring out my future a bit. i didn't think about where i could honestly go, even though i would preach about wanting to go to a four year. so, instead i moved two states away to go to a junior college. didn't really analyze my situation or think about the consequences of those lack of actions.

Part 2

that quote is mind boggling. my comprehension is almost shot.

until this class, i connotated the word 'intellecutal' in intelligence. some people who are intelligent are nice, others are goobers. so, positive or negative, not answerable for me, but the implication of book smarts. after our class discussion i realized that an intellectual is not necessarily book smart, so i will have to rethink my connotations...

logic and reason are empirical knowledge, things you learn from experience. i am wrong actually. logic is something you are born with and it grows through experience. reason is what you are taught when you are young. if you are not nurtured in these area's i don't believe you can ever force yourself to get them for yourself later in life. so, for me, they have positive connotations if you posses them. i think poorly of someone who lacks one or both logic and reason.

maybe next time i will get this posted on time....