Hundreds of books have been written about the development of thinking, they teach you to think positively, creatively and on a large scale. But not much has been written about what thinking is. Much is written about the types and laws of thinking, its features at different ages, but the essence of the process itself is rarely mentioned.
Instructions
Step 1
The perception of the surrounding world is deeply subjective, each person has his own, associated with the characteristics of his personality as well as the experience of interaction with other people. After an event has passed into the past, it can leave a representation in consciousness, that is, its image.
Thinking is a process of operating in the minds of images-representations, as well as more complex formations, such as concepts and judgments. A concept is a verbally formulated idea of an object, and a judgment is the result of defining one concept through another.
Step 2
Thinking is the process of creating a variety of connections between ideas, concepts and judgments. This process is common to all people, even the mentally retarded. However, the ability to keep in mind many concepts and connections at the same time and the ability to distinguish between subtle differences between objects and phenomena distinguishes people of high intelligence from individuals with a lower level.
Step 3
It is peculiar for thinking to single out the most important, basic and ignore many details. On the basis of experience and generalization, a person draws conclusions about the properties of the world around him and acquires the ability to predict and draw conclusions, this is associated with the concept of the truth of thinking. True thinking is one that is adequate to reality, that is, it allows a person, without prior knowledge of all the features of a particular situation, to draw conclusions and conclusions based on general knowledge. If these conclusions turn out to be true, such thinking is called true. An example is the conclusions of Sherlock Holmes. This is a literary hero, but he also had a real prototype. Although such examples are very rare in life, and usually people have to put up with a certain amount of mistakes.
Step 4
Another concept is the correctness of thinking, that is, the ability, skill to operate with concepts and judgments according to the laws of logic. Most people feel the laws of logic instinctively and do not make logical mistakes. However, correct thinking does not always give true results, usually this is due to the inaccuracy of the initial data or their insufficiency. After all, the world is much more complex than a problem book in logic.
