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Cait Conley, the candidate the TPUSA teenage tradwives tried to drag for “looking like Dylan Mulvaney” (like thats a bad thing) - has won her Primary and will hopefully unseat Trump loyalist Rep Mike Lawler in November. Cait is a **Decorated Combat Veteran and National Security Expert,** she is the **first women in Special Ops leadership**, and…

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**Critical thinking, defined**

Critical thinking has never been more significant than it is in the age of AI. We see this phrase come up a lot, always in the context of how important it is to maintain our critical thinking skills. But what does that mean?

The word itself offers a starting point. "Critical" comes from the Greek _kritikos_, meaning able to judge or discern. One of the clearest definitions comes from the education researcher Barry Beyer, who put it simply: critical thinking means making reasoned judgments. A judgment is reasoned when it's grounded in evidence and deliberation rather than reflex or habit. That means examining information carefully and questioning assumptions, including our own, before deciding what to believe or how to act.

In practice, we exercise critical thinking any time we slow down and engage with a claim on its own merits, examining the evidence behind it and the logic holding it together. It's a skill that transfers across contexts, from evaluating a news headline to weighing a medical recommendation. In each case, we're looking at the argument being made and whether the evidence warrants the conclusion.

In 1910, John Dewey captured this in one of the earliest modern definitions of the concept: "active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief." That "any" includes the beliefs we've held the longest and feel most certain about. Critical thinking applies as much to our own assumptions as to the claims we encounter from others. Being willing to revise our positions when better evidence emerges is as much a part of critical thinking as the evaluation itself.