Rational thinking is a type of thinking that follows a clear logical connection and leads to a specific goal. Irrational and rational thinking are opposite concepts, where the irrational option assumes the absence of logic, and connectivity, and goals.
Methods of rational thinking
Rational thinking presupposes a way of thinking that does not take into account the sensory sphere. This is a purely cognitive process, in which there is no place for personal emotions and estimates of reality. It should be understood that rational thinking does not mean productive thinking.
It is a rational type of thinking that allows a person to "pull himself together" and adequately assess what is happening in a situation that brings him to emotions. This type of thinking casts out premonitions, impulses, desires, experiences, impressions and everything subjective.
The role of rational thinking in cognition can not be overemphasized: it is this that allows us to give impartial characteristics and definitions in any spheres.
Rational and figurative thinking
Visual thinking is also called visual-figurative. Its peculiarity is that it allows you to advance in cognition without any real action. Visual thinking considers the situation intuitively, without analysis. At the same time, if the result of such thinking should not be voiced, verbal conclusions will not be formulated. It is interesting that for this type of thinking the language itself turns out to be less important than for rational thinking, which is built on the basis of familiar words, concepts and variants of mental activity.
In contrast to the rational type, in figurative thinking, the result will be filled with a large amount of personal content and meaning. Visual thinking is especially important for creative people who, through a work of art, seek to convey to others an image that would be difficult to express in another way.
It is the presence of figurative thinking that makes Tyutchev's famous phrase "the thought uttered is a lie". A person who tries to explain his feelings , reformulates images into words, and his interlocutor of words extracts the image, and he is no longer the one that was invested by another person. It is easier to understand each other when a person operates with the concepts of rational thinking, logical inferences and terms, the meaning of which is precisely established and known to the interlocutor.