The one concept that I picked from this semester was the concept of reasoning. I thought that the different types of reasoning was a really useful, as well as interesting because of the many different types of reasoning. Reasoning is probably the biggest concept behind critical thinking. I did not think there were that many different types and kind of reasoning. I just always thought that reasoning was reasoning, and not that it varied in type. You can apply all the different types of reasoning to different aspect of your daily life.
Like for example today, I used Reasoning By Criteria to figure out what to get for my secret Santa. I used Inductive Reasoning to plan ahead for traffic on the freeway, because there is always traffic around that specific time. And Deductive reasoning to figure out what day my Chemistry final would be, because if I had lecture on Monday and Wednesday than the final would take place on Friday.
The types of reasoning are really useful and interesting. Definitely something that you use on a daily basis.
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