Culture of logical thinking as an important component of personality formation

Abstract

The article considers the culture of logical thinking as an important component of personality formation. It is emphasized that human thinking is subject to logical laws and proceeds in logical forms regardless of the science of logic. Logical thinking is defined as the ability to analyze a situation, event or phenomenon and as the ability to rationally predict the future. Logical thinking is close to critical, because it lays the foundation for a comprehensive vision and understanding of reality. Along with the general laws of logical thinking, there are many special methods by which tasks in various fields of knowledge are solved. The laws of logic are described. The truth of thought and the logical correctness of reasoning are highlighted. Logical thinking is defined as the ability to analyze a situation, event or phenomenon and as the ability to rationally predict the future. Logical thinking is close to critical, because it lays the foundation for a comprehensive vision and understanding of reality. At the same time, it also requires a certain mastery of the skill of abstract thinking, the ability to analyze, compare and interpret information. Along with the general laws of logical thinking, there are many special methods that solve problems in various fields of knowledge (for example, the Fourier method in mathematics, mathematical modeling methods in engineering, statistical methods in psychology, etc.). Today, there is hardly a field of intellectual work that does not have such special means of thinking. The time of amateurs has passed, specialists are needed everywhere who have the appropriate level of professional culture and possess the means and methods of professional thinking. The development of a culture of logical thinking of an individual has its own characteristics and is determined by a natural change of stages, in which each previous one prepares the next ones. With the emergence of new forms of thinking, old forms do not disappear, they are preserved and developed. More complex cognitive tasks become more accessible. They develop the ability to reason, justify their judgments, compare, generalize, specify. There is a transition from visual and figurative to verbal and logical thinking.