The type of reasoning that was most difficult for me to understand was reasoning by criteria. Most of the types of reasoning discussed in my last post were familiar to me, however reasoning by criteria was not. Reasoning by criteria was the most difficult for me to understand because I have never really heard of such this type of reasoning before. Reasoning by criteria is when you establish criteria by which an outcome will be concluded, and then proceed to use the criteria to identify the best conclusion. Sometimes it can be hard to determine which criteria to select. Using values that are popular or common as criteria can be helpful because these criteria will be more easily accepted.
An example of reasoning by criteria is: “Many studies show that smoking causes lung cancer. How about you don’t smoke?”
The criterion is that smoking causes lung cancer. This criterion is used to establish the best outcome which would be not smoking.
I agree that reasoning by criteria was quite difficult to understand because I am not familiar with it as well. We do not often hear about it so when discussing it in our post, it was hard. Your explanation was simple and understanding. Basically, reasoning by criteria is when you have information and use that information to make the best decision. I liked your example because it made a lot of sense and followed your definition. The information was that smoking causes lung cancer. And also the best decision to make was to quit smoking. Overall good post and keep up the good work!
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