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Reasoning in sentence

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And the reasoning behind that would be, first, we have, through medicine, managed to preserve a lot of genes that would otherwise be selected out and be removed from the population.
Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.
The language guides our reasoning about events.
And the autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language.
Growing up in Perth as an overly cerebral kid ... (Laughter) I would always try and act in the way that I thought was rational, reasoning through every decision, trying to figure out the very best action to take.
And I think some dispassionate, quantitative reasoning could really bring a great deal to the debate.
They chose a large family from Beijing for its size, and they declined to give me any further reasoning for their choice.
Now let's fast-forward to the 1990s when those two teams of astronomers I mentioned at the outset were inspired by this reasoning to measure the rate at which the expansion has been slowing.
And when it comes to planets and their distances, this clearly is the right kind of reasoning.
The point is, when it comes to universes and the dark energy that they contain, it may also be the right kind of reasoning.
They are instead the products of downstream imagination leading to hard work, during which mathematical reasoning may or may not prove to be relevant.
Now there's just one problem with this line of reasoning, and that's that the insula does a lot.
You know, the sort of first principles reasoning.
Through most of our life, we get through life by reasoning by analogy, which essentially means copying what other people do with slight variations.
In fact, during the past three decades, when market reasoning and market thinking have gathered force and gained prestige, our public discourse during this time has become hollowed out, empty of larger moral meaning.
Those include abilities at tasks requiring physical strength and stamina, ambition, and the power of novel reasoning in a circumscribed situation, such as figuring out the structure of DNA, best left to scientists under the age of 30.
We found that we have, on average, 86 billion neurons, 16 billion of which are in the cerebral cortex, and if you consider that the cerebral cortex is the seat of functions like awareness and logical and abstract reasoning, and that 16 billion is the most neurons that any cortex has, I think this is the simplest explanation for our remarkable cognitive abilities.
The second condition is that reasoners are members of a community of reasoners who can affect one another's well-being, can exchange messages, and comprehend each other's reasoning.
It tries to respond to these radical changes in our world, uses evidence and careful reasoning to try to answer this question: How can we do the most good?
Blaise Pascal was a 17th-century mathematician who tried to bring scientific reasoning to the question of whether or not he should believe in God, and his wager went like this: Well, if God doesn't exist but I decide to believe in him nothing much is really lost.
These can help you make your own arguments and reasoning more convincing and sometimes, you may even end up being the one changing your mind.
One is about a problem of generalization, and the other is about a problem of causal reasoning.
Let me show you another example now, this time about a problem of causal reasoning.
You know about moral reasoning.
The act of remembering relies on the prefrontal cortex, which governs thought, attention, and reasoning.
So think about how you're going to work through this ahead of time, so you don't have to manufacture the chain of reasoning on the spot.
Mathematics is rightly considered the pinnacle of human reasoning, but we now know that even mathematics has its limitations.
Now, the idea of the multiverse has been around for a while, but in the last few years, we've started to get the first solid hints that this line of reasoning may get born out.
They are crucial to abstract reasoning, planning, weighing decisions and flexibly adapting to circumstances.
Using this sort of inductive reasoning, we can see that the pattern will repeat no matter how many prisoners you add.
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