The phrase "a form of reasoning" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing different types or methods of logical thought processes.
Example: "Deductive reasoning is a form of reasoning that starts with general principles and moves to specific conclusions."
Alternatives: "a type of reasoning" or "a method of reasoning".
Can we do justice to this dimension of practical reason while preserving the idea that practical deliberation is genuinely a form of reasoning?
A form of reasoning that can produce such directly opposed results certainly looks like a kind of rationale-seeking in the guise of reasoning.
Although this example is trivial, it illustrates a form of reasoning that is appealed to in the explanation of countless actions people perform every day.
Most of us have strong views about how best to use language; where the more intricate details are concerned, those views are often an amalgam of aesthetic taste, ingrained social prejudice, popular myth and a form of reasoning that we insist is logic though it may smell like something else.
Hathaway and Shapiro concede that, in its final judgment, the Nuremberg court reverted to a form of reasoning that Allied lawyers had warned against: it argued that, since the defendants should have known that their actions were wrong, the court was justified in punishing them — effectively an exercise in ex-post-facto legislation.
Steel (2008) has proposed a form of reasoning that he calls "comparative process tracing".
In this respect, analogical reasoning is a form of "relational reasoning".
Under an abductive reasoning frame manipulation, which induced an inclination toward a form of logical reasoning that introduces hypotheses to explain given observations, individuals were more likely to accept concepts whereas under a deductive reasoning manipulation they were more likely to reject concepts.
It may even be possible, according to military visionaries, to give drones a form of ethical reasoning, using artificial intelligence.Civil-liberty advocacy groups have raised concerns about targeted killings by drones of suspected terrorists, especially in the case of al-Awlaki who was an American citizen.
We argue that some inductive processes, like ICL, can be seen as a form of defeasible reasoning.
It is thus possible to understand tableau proofs as a form of metalogical reasoning about a game, whose features determine and explain the form of the tableau rules.
