Crítica

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Israel Melendez Ayala
Oct 25, 2023
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Crítica, the Spanish word for critique, derives from French. Its root, though, is a Greek word κριτική (kritikē), meaning "the faculty of judging”—that is, discerning the value of persons or things; discerning the truth by previously evidencing fallacy or error.

It is also engine of research and a tool of logic, since, etymologically, philosophy is the h…

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