"pattern of reasoning" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the systematic way in which someone thinks or makes logical arguments. Example: In her essay, the author presents a clear pattern of reasoning to support her argument, starting with an observation and then providing evidence and logical connections to back it up.
If reasons for adopting a practice or pattern of reasoning transmit to the actions or inferences that fall under it, as Rawls (1955) once argued, the problems of bootstrapping and peremptoriness return.
But if reasons do not transmit in this way, the picture appears to be one of 'rational irrationality': having reason to adopt or sustain an irrational pattern of reasoning, on the ground that the results of doing so are mostly for the best.
This pattern of reasoning was exemplified by Brittany Maynard, a twenty-nine-year-old newlywed who moved to Oregon last year so that she could die on her own terms rather than allowing her brain cancer to take its course.
The pattern of reasoning by abduction is as follows: 1.
Repetition of the same pattern of reasoning then establishes the existence of an infinite regress of forms of F-ness.
Repetition of the same pattern of reasoning then establishes the existence of an infinite regress of forms of likeness.
Other modern variants of the argument attempt to ground theistic belief in patterns of reasoning that are characteristic of the natural sciences, appealing to simplicity and economy of explanation of the order and regularity of the universe.
Opponents of this kind of ethical consequentialism stress the discontinuities between moral and non-moral patterns of reasoning.
The relevant patterns of reasoning we engage in reflect our conception of the object referred to as mind-independent.
The so-called "regress problem," can be stated briefly in this way: There are only three possible patterns of reasoning.
This paper describes patterns of reasoning that allow identity sentences to be grounded in sensory observations, thereby bridging the gap.
