I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
To grasp the limits of reason—only this is true philosophy.
– Nietzsche
- Deductive reasoning works from the more general to the more specific. top-down
- Inductive reasoning works the other way, moving from specific observations to broader generalizations and theories. bottom-up
courses
books
- Think Again: How to Reason and Argue by Walter Sinnot-Armstrong
- Why We Argue (And How We Should): A Guide to Political Disagreement in an Age of Unreason by Scott Aikin
- Political Argument in a Polarized Age: Reason and Democr#atic Life by Robert Talisse