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| my thinking and my words are accurate when they describe the way things actually are |
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| other possibilities, options, choices |
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| background theory, what is given or what is taken for granted |
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| freedom from narrowness or restraint; liberality |
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| thinking is clear when its easily understood, free from likelihood of misunderstanding |
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| Organizing ideas, categories |
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| Conclusions, Interpretations |
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| Inferences, solutions, decisions arrived at |
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| believing in trying to figure things out, rely on thinking their way through questions and issues |
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complexity or obscurity, as of a subject |
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| do their best to be balanced and impartial when trying to understand, analyze, evaluate or apply any belief or point of view, no matter how different from their own |
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| Implications and Consequences |
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| what follows, costs, and benefits |
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| to say something is important is to say it matters |
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| data, evidence, observations |
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| thinks for themselves, commited to it |
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| face up to challenges to their settled beliefs and habitual ways of thinking |
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| willingly commit themselves to thinking through the logic of any point of view, without regard to whether they agree with it or not |
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| involve, on a deep and satisfying level, in wanting to understand things and think them through |
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| recognize and own up to what they don't know, in all its fullness |
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| hold themselves to the same high intellectual standards they hold others to |
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| Intellectual Perseverance |
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| willing to stick with important intellectual tasks for as long as it takes to reach a reasonable conclusion |
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| frame of reference, perspective |
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| your thinking is precise when you have been as specific and detailed as needed to reason through an issue |
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| Objectives, goals, desired outcome, intention, function |
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| Problem, topic, "the point" |
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| when you've reasoned out thoroughly enough for the purpose at hand, when it is adequate for what is needed, when you've taken account of all necessary factors |
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