What is weak vs strong critical thinking? In what qualities of critical thinking do you find you have strengths? What qualities of critical...

I like to
think that I'm pretty good at considering multiple viewpoints and evaluating things from a
practical rather than ideological perspective, although I tend toward finding negatives and
negations. Sometimes the Socratic method is criticized for only being able to identify
falsehood, and not truth; this is pretty much how I feel. It bothers me a bit because I feel
like I can't provide a good alternative argument, and pessimism is tiring. However I try to use
this, both in my own rational thinking and in my teaching, to dissect and rebuild an argument in
a stronger way, whether or not I...