<p>“Are you equating critical thinking with a smug belief that one knows “the absolute truth?” Because that’s not what it is either. Critical thinking, if anything, makes you aware of how much you don’t know. It’s non-critical thinkers who tend to see the world in simplistic, black-and-white terms”</p>
<p>No, I’m not equating the two. We agree. I would submit that smug confidence in every “truth” is non-critical thinking, the same as you.</p>