Defining Critical Thinking Sample Weekly Essays from Psychology 101 Classes How To Be A Critical Thinker (based on Critical and Creative Thinking by Carole Wade and Carol Tavris) “The philosopher Richard Paul has described three kinds of people: vulgar believers, who use slogans and platitudes to bully those holding different points of view into agreeing with them; sophisticated believers, who are skilled at using intellectual arguments, but only to defend what they already believe; […]