Summary

• Critical thinking is about you. It's not some distant subject that is unrelated to you. Fundamentally, critical thinkers are people who try to be fair and reasonable.
• Critical thinking is really practical logic.
• Logic involves the systematic presentation of reasoning in arguments.
• Arguments have basic structures. They always have at lease one premise and a conclusion.
• Indicator words, such as because and therefore, are like signposts in arguments that tell us how particular sentences function in the argument.