critical faculties
noun
: ability to make judgments about what is good or true
She needs to learn to develop her critical faculties.
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But no one with functioning critical faculties thinks of either party as holding to those positions today — just the opposite.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
My father was an Air Force engineer, trained to identify every possible structural or design weakness, and my siblings and I both benefited and suffered from his overactive critical faculties.
—Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 26 Nov. 2022
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
My father was an Air Force engineer, trained to identify every possible structural or design weakness, and my siblings and I both benefited and suffered from his overactive critical faculties.
—Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 26 Nov. 2022
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“Critical faculties.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/critical%20faculties. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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