What is thinking? It is comparing a particular idea (a datum) with what is known and observed of other data in the same subject in the physical universe . There are two methods of learning, authoritarian method and observed and evaluated method. The first is where you read or hear something and just accept it, it's on the order of "somebody said...". The other is where you actually make the information your own by evaluation and observation. Example would be: "Kyle said ... and so tha