Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is a way, style, path, or movement of thought in which an individual

uses to find deeper meanings to everyday events or situations. Critical thinking straddles and

revolves around philosophy and when asked to define critical thinking is, then philosophy plays a

role. To attempt to define critical thinking, the phrase must be divided into separate words. The

word "critical" can pose two analytical meanings. One meaning of "critical" exposes urgency

and a sense of aporia. One cannot expect to know the unknown, however we still possess an

unclear sense or impasse of thought. And that the events have to unfold and unravel on its own.

The second part of the word displays a reflexive aspect. It is hard to remain unbiased when the

thought is centered around one's own mind. For example, a movie critic can also submit his or

her own movies to a producer, however may become biased when criticizing the producer's other

films. The second word "thinking" can be seen as questioning a question. So together critical

thinking may be seen as an unknown answer to questioning a question.

Veritas is the adequate correspondence between mind and thing. It shows to the

individual that one's initial assertion is correct. In essence, it connects with critical thought.

Veritas moves in a path towards unconcealdness and disclosure and finally towards a-letheia. A-

letheia is the Greek word that could roughly be translated into a non-oblivious or non-forgetful

river. "From this genealogy of Ð''Truth' of humanist modernity, which discloses its origins in the

Roman translation of the Greek a-letheia to veritas, the hermeneutic circle (repetition) to the

circulus vitiosus (recollection), and serves to pacify the force