THE POSITION OF CRITICAL THINKING AMONG OTHER MODES OF THINKING

This research aims to approach the topic of critical thinking as one of the terms that has received the attention of researchers in various disciplines; such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, discourse analysis, and literary criticism.It can be said that these disciplines, despite the diversity of their cognitive and methodological backgrounds, meet in that critical thinking is a kind of conscious and accurate evaluation of ideas, discourses, and information in order to judge their value and essence, and their ability to develop the path of science and the knowledge train .Critical thinking is based on the process of questioning, scrutinizing and evaluating ideas in order to give them meaning.Therefore, it is considered one of the most advanced and important types of thinking .Discussing critical thinking cannot be separated from two dimensions :The cognitive dimension; which is represented by the individual's availability of a significant amount of knowledge, assumptions, interpretations and deductions in order to analyze various issues; -The emotional dimension; It is related to the ability to address problems and raise logical questions, and this is achieved by possessing the skills of evaluation, discussion and inference .We also pointed out, in the folds of this research, other types of thinking that are inseparable from critical thinking, namely: creative thinking, scientific thinking, and logical thinking .As for the most important problems and questions that we raised in this research, the most prominent of them can be identified in : What is the relationship between thought and criticism?