Nature of Logic and Preception. This paper explains the nature of logic to critical thinking, as you understand it.

Logic and Perception Is perception reality? Perception and reality are two very different things. "Perception is how we receive and translate our experiences -- how and what we think about them. "Who we are and how we spend our life's energies, is based to a large extent on what we pick up from others. But (in case you never noticed) they do not all give us the same message - so who are we to …

…a learned process and being unaware of how perceptions are formed can lead to making wrong decisions, misunderstanding and misjudgments. Developing critical thinking skills and thinking logically will ensure that perceptions are true or as close to the truth as possible. If we are interested in knowing the truth, than the answer is obvious: logic reasoning extends our grasp of the truth, from the information we have to what can be inferred from that information.