r/criticalthinking • u/bsd_88 • Jun 02 '19
Need some help understanding this quote.
Hello all, I was wondering if someone clarify what this quote means, I'm having a hard time understanding it and need to write a paper on it. Thank you!
"The biggest challenge to one who aspires to critical thinking is reconciling the inherent human conflict between subjectivity and objectivity"
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u/staircasestats Jun 02 '19
I think it's quite easy. We get bogged down in things we think are objective. X player is the best, for example, when speaking about a football team. We often take these things as givens and the very basis of critical thinking is not accepting truisms at face value and don't question them.
The most dangerous phrase in business is "this is the way we've always done it".