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Reasoning
Core forms of inference
- Claim and supportBacking up a claimUnlock in "Claim and support"
- Deductive reasoningRule reasoningUnlock in "Deductive reasoning"
- Inductive reasoningPattern reasoningUnlock in "Inductive reasoning"
- Abductive reasoningClue reasoningUnlock in "Abductive reasoning"
- Analogical reasoningComparison reasoningUnlock in "Analogical reasoning"
- Causal reasoningCause reasoningUnlock in "Causal reasoning"
- Statistical reasoningNumber reasoningUnlock in "Statistical reasoning"
- Bayesian reasoningBelief-updating reasoningUnlock in "Bayesian reasoning"
Reasoning in use
- Authority / testimonyExpert reasoningUnlock in "Authority and testimony"
- Expected-value reasoningRisk-and-reward reasoningUnlock in "Expected-value reasoning"
- Precedent reasoningPrior-case reasoningUnlock in "Precedent reasoning"
- Practical reasoningGoal reasoningUnlock in "Practical reasoning"
- Moral / normative reasoningValue reasoningUnlock in "Moral and normative reasoning"
- Comparative reasoningBetter-or-worse reasoningUnlock in "Comparative reasoning"
- Conductive reasoningMany-reasons reasoningUnlock in "Conductive reasoning"
Reasoning about concepts and structure
- Definitional reasoningWhat-counts reasoningUnlock in "Definitional reasoning"
- Conceptual reasoningIdea reasoningUnlock in "Conceptual reasoning"
- Classification reasoningSorting reasoningUnlock in "Classification reasoning"
- Part–whole reasoningPieces-and-whole reasoningUnlock in "Part–whole reasoning"
- Dialectical reasoningBack-and-forth reasoningUnlock in "Dialectical reasoning"
- Thought experimentWhat-if reasoningUnlock in "Thought experiments"
- Reductio ad absurdumAbsurdity reasoningUnlock in "Reductio ad absurdum"
Fallacies
Formal fallacies
- Affirming the consequentUnlock in "When deduction breaks: formal fallacies"
- Denying the antecedentUnlock in "When deduction breaks: formal fallacies"
- Undistributed middleUnlock in "When deduction breaks: formal fallacies"
- Contradictory premisesUnlock in "When deduction breaks: formal fallacies"
Evidence fallacies
- Hasty generalizationUnlock in "When reasoning breaks: first fallacies"
- Anecdotal evidenceUnlock in "When reasoning breaks: first fallacies"
- Cherry-pickingUnlock in "When the sample lies: evidence fallacies"
- Biased sampleUnlock in "When the sample lies: evidence fallacies"
- Survivorship biasUnlock in "When the sample lies: evidence fallacies"
Causal fallacies
- Post hocUnlock in "When reasoning breaks: first fallacies"
- Correlation implies causationUnlock in "When cause goes wrong: causal fallacies"
- Single-cause fallacyUnlock in "When cause goes wrong: causal fallacies"
- Slippery slopeUnlock in "When cause goes wrong: causal fallacies"
Relevance fallacies
- Ad hominemUnlock in "When debate breaks: relevance fallacies"
- Straw manUnlock in "When debate breaks: relevance fallacies"
- Red herringUnlock in "When debate breaks: relevance fallacies"
- Tu quoqueUnlock in "When debate breaks: relevance fallacies"
- Appeal to emotionUnlock in "When debate breaks: relevance fallacies"
Presumption fallacies
- Begging the questionUnlock in "When the ground is rigged: presumption fallacies"
- Loaded questionUnlock in "When the ground is rigged: presumption fallacies"
- False dilemmaUnlock in "When the ground is rigged: presumption fallacies"
- Special pleadingUnlock in "When the ground is rigged: presumption fallacies"
- Moving the goalpostsUnlock in "When the ground is rigged: presumption fallacies"