Reasoning

Reasoning is a thought process aimed at substantiating a position or obtaining a new conclusion from several premises. Thinking takes the form of reasoning usually in those cases when it is necessary to learn something new by analyzing already known facts or positions, and also when the truth of a judgment is in doubt and confirmation, proof or refutation of this judgment is required.

Types (forms) of reasoning

Reasoning is carried out in the form of judgments and conclusions: deductive (see Deduction), inductive (see Induction), hypothetical (see Hypothesis), by analogy.

Reasoning Tools

An important role in reasoning is played by mental operations: analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison, etc.

Extended and folded discussion. Reasoning and intuition

In the process of learning, reasoning develops and improves, their structure changes; gradually expanded, cumbersome reasoning (characteristic of younger students) becomes more concise and less conscious. If such internal reasoning is completely compressed, already unconscious and proceeds without tension, easily, against the background of habitual relaxation, a person more often speaks without thinking, sometimes finding it difficult to bring intermediate links of reasoning and simply referring to Intuition.

Reason and think

“Let’s think, if that’s the case, then…

This is an example of reasoning, and reasoning is part of thinking (along with representation and imagination).