Sentence examples for mode of reasoning from inspiring English sources
Flynn himself thinks that the spread of the scientific mode of reasoning has played a role.
System 2, in Kahneman's scheme, is our slow, deliberate, analytical and consciously effortful mode of reasoning about the world.
This mode of reasoning can be correct e.g., concluding that two lines do not intersect if the assumption that they do intersect leads to a contradiction.
Proudhon's mode of reasoning, Marx wrote, was typical of the petty bourgeois, who failed to see the underlying laws of history.
Applying that mode of reasoning, he said, could help make the cosmological constant less peculiar, "But we don't know if that's the help that we really deserve to get," he concluded.
René Descartes France's national philosopher, whose Discourse on Method defined thought as the essential human quality ("I think, therefore I am") and exemplified one of the classic traits of the French style of thinking: the deductive mode of reasoning, which starts with a general, abstract proposition and then works towards a specific conclusion.
The arts complement the sciences because they nurture different modes of reasoning.
Some of the modes of reasoning traditionally listed in inventories of fallacies are not necessarily mistaken, though they can easily lead to misuses.
When we look at the way that numbers are used, we see increasingly calculative modes of reasoning deployed in our workplaces, in our consumer behaviour, and in determining whether schools, hospitals, universities, countries are failing or succeeding.
Good-reasons theory, in American and British metaethics, an approach that tries to establish the validity or objectivity of moral judgments by examining the modes of reasoning used to support them.
Reviewing Daniel Kahneman's "extraordinarily interesting" new book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow," in today's New York Times Book Review, the always extraordinarily interesting Jim Holt summarizes the author's notion that people have two modes of reasoning.
