Community ontology: Elements of Thinking (Paul-Elder critical thinking framework)

[Dao (daocoding)]

What this adds

A community catalogue entry: Elements of Thinking — an ontology of the Paul–Elder critical thinking framework. 12 entity types · 14 relationships · 27 properties.

catalogue/community/daocoding/elements-of-thinking/

The model

• Reasoning as the hub, with the framework's eight elements of thought radiating from it: Purpose, Question, Information, Inference, Concept, Assumption, Implication, PointOfView — each relation named as the framework describes it (pursues, rests on, proceeds from…).
• The nine intellectual standards (clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance, fairness) and eight intellectual traits (humility, courage, empathy, autonomy, integrity, perseverance, confidence in reason, fairmindedness) are enum values on IntellectualStandard / IntellectualTrait — Clarity is an entity of type standard, and promoting each to its own entity type would blur the type/entity line.
• The practice loop closes on the graph: a Thinker performs Reasoning; Standards measure it; the Thinker applies Standards and develops Traits; the traits steady the next act of reasoning.
• Properties carry the rest of the framework: the six-stage development ladder (thinker.stage), the fact/preference/judgment question taxonomy (question.kind), each trait's opposing vice, and honesty flags (explicit, examined, checked, verified, alternativesConsidered).

Attribution

Framework by Richard Paul and Linda Elder (Foundation for Critical Thinking, criticalthinking.org) — credited in the ontology header, metadata and descriptions. All descriptive text is original; their books go deeper.

Validation

• npm run catalogue:build succeeds — the entry compiles into public/catalogue.json (72 entries)
• metadata.json conforms to catalogue/metadata-schema.json (category: education)
• RDF follows existing community conventions (ont:cardinality, ont:fromEntityId/ont:toEntityId, ont:propertyType, ont:enumValues, ont:isIdentifier)

Sibling PR from the same author: #86 (Elements of Software).

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