Ten Top Critical Thinking Skills / Analysis Tools Read through these critical thinking skills one by one or browse. These thinking aides will help you when considering problems, deciding what to write in an essay, or analyzing any situation in life. You may be more familiar with some ideas and less familiar with others. Look at them all! 1. Define your terms 2. Perspective: Perception/ point of view, the ability to see both the forest and the trees. 3. Relativity and absolutes: Different does not mean bad or wrong or good or right. 4. Space: scale, size, amount, number 5. Time: sequence, order 6. Spectrum: scope, range, 7. Causation: cause and effect, stimulus response 8. Synergy: entropy, opposition, the understanding that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. 9. Hierarchy: Social, Economic, Political 10. Book and cover Copyright: 2004 English 4 All, Inc.