Contents of Thinking Strategies

Lecture Notes

Well, as we move on from those mental representations, those ingredients of thought, we now want to think, "If that's sort of the raw information that we're receiving and that we're processing, well, how might we put those things together? How might we transform or elaborate those representations into ways that allow us to reason, to problem solve, to make decisions?" And that's really where these thinking strategies come in into play. We're going to talk about formal reasoning a little bit, and then focus a bit more on informal reasoning.