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Critical thinking, therefore, may be defined as the process by which we test claims and arguments and determine which have merit and which do not. In other words, critical thinking is a search for answers, a quest.

批判性思维可以被定义为一个过程，我们通过这个过程来检验要求和论点，并决定哪些是有价值的，哪些不是。换句话说，批判性思维是一种寻找答案的探索。