For Medicare, too, a higher eligibility age and means testing will be proposed. Democratic resistance will derail most of the longer-term reform efforts, for now. In time, though, some of the changes will have to be put into place to avoid major cuts in benefits.
Thus critical thinking has a creative component: to produce a better product of thought And creative thinking has a critical component: to reshape thinking in keeping with criteria of excellence. Critical thinking without a creative output is merely negative thinking. Creative thinking without a critical component is merely novel thinking. It is easy to be merely negative or novel in oneâs thought.
This conceptualization of critical thinking has been refined and developed further by Richard Paul and Linder Elder into the Paul-Elder framework of critical thinking. Currently, this approach is one of the most widely published and cited frameworks in the critical thinking literature. According to the Paul-Elder framework, critical thinking is the: Analysis of thinking by focusing on the parts or structures of thinking (the Elements of Thought) Evaluation of thinking by focusing on the quality (the Universal Intellectual Standards)