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Reasoning Elementary critical thinking skills Reasoning: the ability to use the thinking capacity of the human mind

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Reasoning

Elementary critical thinking skills

Reasoning: the ability to use the thinking capacity of the human mind

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Helps us to solve problems

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Allows us to make judgments

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Helps us to make decisions

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Helps us to learn from experience

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It can be done well or poorly.

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Why study reasoning?

It is part of our human potential; to be fully human we must choose to use it.

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It will be useful in college and the “real” world.

Why study reasoning?

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It will facilitate discussion in class—we will have a common vocabulary for identifying mistakes.

Why study reasoning?

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It will protect us from charlatans—people who would distort the truth in an attempt to manipulate us for their gain.

Why study reasoning?

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Reasoning: caution

Logic/Reasoning is not meant to be a weapon to diminish others. We employ it for the benefit of all in our quest for the truth.