Deductive, inductive, and abductive reason have to do with increasing the likelihood of truth, and practical reason has to do with trying to base one's actions (or "practice") in part on truth and in part upon what one wants or values.
While 84% of directors believe that the importance of a CEO succession plan has increased, the sad truth is that only about half of boards actually have one in place.
Nor does one necessarily make a step toward the truth by increasing the content of a false theory.
But, the problem of finding the truth in debates about increasing the minimum wage goes well beyond Boehner's misleading sound-bites.
Truth-telling is induced, increasing the efficiency of capacity payments while eliminating the requirement for the regulator to allocate resources to discovering reliability.
In truth, the increase in inequality is due to a series of policy choices taken (union-busting, globalization, tax cuts) or not taken (increasing the minimum wage, mandating parental leave, establishing universal healthcare, regulating the financial industry).
Thus it cannot increase the degree of truth.
The philosophic question why Newton's rules are appropriate is best addressed not by asking how they increase the probability of truth, but by asking whether there is some strategy in ongoing research for which these rules will both promote further discoveries and safeguard against dead-end garden paths that ultimately require all the supposed discoveries to be discarded.
Even so, the study raises the possibility that TMS could be used to increase the likelihood of getting the truth out of suspects or defendants.
Apparently, hearing about the dire consequences of lying such as having a wolf feast on the liar did not increase the likelihood of telling the truth.
