[kibwen]

An important aspect of thinking critically is the willingness to entertain opposing ideas as true. If you can reject an opposing position even while granting it the benefit of the doubt, then that says good things about the strength of your original position. But if you can't reject such an opposing position, then that helps to inform how you should respond to people with that position since now you know that, rather than being illogical, it's merely that their axioms are different.