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Philosophy can be a great resource for teaching modern dentistry. The purpose of this letter is to contribute further to Farhad Naini's editorial contribution by highlighting the importance of defining other concepts, such as critical thinking, and how philosophical debates are relevant to modern dentistry.1 There have been attempts, in dentistry, to define concepts such as critical thinking,2 but we are still left with a dilemma in that none of the definitions since Plato (429–247 BCE) fully answers these fundamental questions such as, ‘What is critical thinking?’, a concept which should be in the thoughts of any dental clinician. According to Plato's allegory of the cave, knowledge can have fundamental flaws, and critical thinking could relate to the reasoning and justification approaches defined below:
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