Open-Minded Inquiry

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http://www.criticalthinking.org/articles/Open-minded-inquiry.cfm

tungkol sa teacher and student 'yung article but I think it's also a good read for all of us Engineers, and Technicians especially 'yung mga nasa leadership roles or managers. minsan kasi as we earn more experience or go up the corporate ladder, the more closed-minded we become.

Open-mindedness: The central concept in this family of ideas. Open-mindedness is an intellectual virtue that involves a willingness to take relevant evidence and argument into account in forming or revising our beliefs and values, especially when there is some reason why we might resist such evidence and argument, with a view to arriving at true and defensible conclusions. It means being critically receptive to alternative possibilities, being willing to think again despite having formed an opinion, and sincerely trying to avoid those conditions and offset those factors which constrain and distort our reflections. The attitude of open-mindedness is embedded in the Socratic idea of following the argument where it leads and is a fundamental virtue of inquiry.