Logical Reasoning
Logical reasoning is about arriving at a conclusion in a rigorous way. There two broad categories of logical reasoning: deductive reasoning and non-deductive reasoning . Deductive reasoning provides a result that is guaranteed to be certain, therefore the result can be relied upon without doubt and humans need not be involved in a process because of the certainty of deductive reasoning. Non-deductive reasoning, on the other hand, is not certain, meaning it could be correct but it could also be incorrect. Non-deductive reasoning is based on probability. Non-deductive reasoning is always fallible; there is always the possibility of error. And so non-deductive reasoning approaches must have a human in the loop to deal with that uncertainty. There are three types of non-deductive reasoning: inductive reasoning , abductive reasoning , and analogy . A line of reasoning (a.k.a. chain of reasoning) is an explanation of an approach to solving a proble...