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The intellect is that part of the mind with “the power of thought.” It is the basis of intelligence and cognitive ability. It contrasts with processes guided by irrational feelings or desires, rather than truth-seeking thoughts. Critical thinking is the process that develops and grooms the intellect, enabling it to do what it exists to do – serve the mind in making sense of the world through construction of substantive knowledge. Individuals cannot develop intellectual interests if they have no sense of the nature and significance of their intellects. We cannot be skilled at thinking unless we are skilled at acquiring knowledge; we cannot be skilled at acquiring knowledge unless we are skilled at thinking.
Those who want to think critically must discover their intellects, but one cannot discover the intellect if it remains unnamed. It must be explicitly used, explicitly trained, and explicitly grounded and cultivated. When one uses his or her intellect successfully - e.g., to respond successfully to new experiences, to read and write closely and substantively, to think biologically, geographically, mathematically, sociologically, or historically, to 'open' subjects of study, and to see those subjects as systems and take command of them - then, and only then, does one use the intellect in keeping with its potential as the ultimate driving force of the life of the mind.
When we target the intellect as the instrument of learning, we can begin to construct substantive knowledge, or in other words:
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