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A self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way is called-
Answer: A
Such thinking is called critical thinking.
The definition in the question follows Richard Paul and Linda Elder: critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking that attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. Its marks are questioning assumptions, judging evidence and staying open to other views.
Complex thinking refers to handling many interrelated ideas, intelligent thinking is a loose everyday phrase, and abstract thinking means reasoning about ideas detached from concrete objects. None of them carries the fair-minded, self-correcting standard in the definition.
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