Interestingly, and perhaps most importantly, correlations between the ICBM and REI for students (Table 4) further suggest that those who are naïve to the knowledge base required to "successfully" respond to the ICBM may nevertheless profit by a thinking style in tune with logical reasoning (i.e., relatively high need for cognition and/or relatively low faith in intuition).
These simple arguments (deductive arguments can be infinitely more complex) illustrate two important features of deductive reasoning: it need not be about real things, and it can be applied to any subject matter whatsoever i.e., it is universal.
Even though I agree that intuition doesn't need conscious reasoning, I believe it is not without cognitive elements.
My reasoning was this: I needed to get from Zambia to Cape Town and a tour was a fairly cheap way to see a lot of Botswana and Namibia along the way.
In her defence, I suppose, it was pretty clear that he would have done the same, and her reasoning was pretty stirring stuff: "I need to work or I'll fall apart".
Whatever your reasoning, it needs to be a part of your plan.
Intelligence in regard to the big picture of our world is no neutral thing, no simple natural capacity of reasoning; it needs grace to escape from the distortions of pride and acquisitiveness.
Mark says that behind the scenes, Lola is using both understanding and reasoning — it needs to understand "what do those words mean in terms in terms of intent", then it uses reasoning to determine the best way to fulfill that intent.
Nor is it clear that the math we learn in the classroom has any relation to the quantitative reasoning we need on the job.
"If the bad guys were watching him, they were doing an excellent job of covering their tracks," Ray thinks at one point, and the reasoning here needn't get too much more elaborate than that.
