Thinking and Reasoning by Melissa Duchak
One of the professional skill development units we were offered was called Thinking and Reasoning, thought by Mrs. Duchak.
This study course challenged me to think outside the box, to answer questions I never really thought about for example: What do you know? and How do you know it?.
I know grass is green and I know it because it was thought to me, this simple question led me to think about the things we know but that aren’t thought to us, our Emotions. A certain feeling can’t be thought, you just simply know it.
There are four basic ways we gain knowledge;
- Perception, we perceive through touch, smell, taste, sight and sound
- Emotion, intuition
- Language
- Reason
In class we focussed on three types of reasoning; Deductive reasoning , Inductive reasoning and mainly Informal reasoning.
Deductive reasoning (this form of reasoning and argumentation will always come to a consistent and logical conclusion)
Inductive reasoning (this form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from a particular set of cases or observations)
Informal reasoning (use of fallacies)
During this unit we learned different types of fallacies for example, appeal to fear, appeal to pity, peer pressure fallacy etc.
From this course I have learned the importance of critical Thinking and Reasoning.
