Originally Posted by aceventura3

If I have a basic view or belief that it is softly raining outside, I may be indifferent to that fact, but it is a basic belief that I hold at that particular moment. If the weather man comes on TV and says it is not raining, creating a challenge to that basic belief, I may go to the window or go outside to check, I have a rain gauge that I may check to see how much it had been raining, I might look at the cloud pattern to see if the rain is isolated, I might check some other sources I have for weather. After all of that my basic belief will be enhanced or changed.

You suggest that process is not critical thinking? I disagree.