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Practical reasoning is all it takes: A world where everyone lies is one in which human rationality, which depends entirely on language, dies.
It is precisely this kind of macho reasoning that led America to war in Iraq in the first place.
Exaggeration contradicts the key hallmarks of scientific reasoning: critical thinking and careful appraisal of the evidence.
For one thing, all economic reasoning is contextual, with as many conclusions as potential real-world circumstances.
By this reasoning, Putin could drive an even larger wedge between Britain and Europe, thus advancing his longstanding goal of undermining European solidarity.
Indeed, Putin’s rationale for annexing Crimea closely resembles Brezhnev’s reasoning for invading Afghanistan: to confound enemies seeking to surround the country.
If only rational reasoning was the basis of decision-making, the remaining 27 member states would, in line with their interests, move to strengthen the EU by taking immediate steps toward stabilization and enhanced integration.
Courtiers also learned to avoid showing arrogance toward their opponents – this might alienate potential allies – and they thought little of using logical reasoning with their prince.
Once the fear system detects and starts responding to danger, a brain such as the human brain, with its enormous capacity for thinking, reasoning, and musing, begins to assess what is going on and tries to determine what to do.
Despite horrific twentieth-century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.
All it means is that, if we want to live harmoniously with another species in our most intimate places, we must recognize that some of the time our preferred modes of reasoning are not theirs.
Today’s policymakers, reasoning from the 1930’s, appear to believe that creating confidence is somehow different from creating good reasons to be confident.
The reasoning is practical, not ideological: private providers are often available in places lacking public facilities.
This line of reasoning assumes that markets are perfectly efficient.
Such reasoning crystallizes opposing views of the world, one in which time is a cost, and the other in which it is a benefit.
Because different societies have different norms, institutions, languages, and technologies, they also have different ways of reasoning, mental heuristics, motivations, and emotional reactions.
As a result of these and other problems, the average American secondary-school student receives inadequate preparation in core subjects such as writing, mathematics, and analytical reasoning, which in turn reduces college enrollment and completion rates.
But, while it is true that central bankers are more vulnerable to political pressures than they were before the global financial crisis, Weidmann’s reasoning is faulty.
And, just as predictably, Germany’s government has roundly rejected them, relying on reasoning that, like its counter-arguments, is well rehearsed.
As a result, analogical reasoning both shapes and distorts policy.
In fact, the major flaw in Trump’s reasoning is that combating climate change would strengthen the US, not weaken it.
Later, it also issues long judgments, in which it provides detailed reasoning for its position on an important point of law.
Another line of reasoning is that businesses that depend heavily on continuity – for example, hospitals, outsourcing firms in India, and stock exchanges – will invest in their own backup systems.
At the same time, in America, 1900 to be precise, Sherman introduced his Sherman Act in the Senate of the United States and his reasoning was totally different.
The reasoning of China’s elites is pragmatic: if the Chinese were reassured by the existence of a social–welfare state, they would probably save less and spend more, allowing the domestic market to take over from export-led growth.
Although nowhere mentioned in either case, the scandalous treatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the revelations that high-level government lawyers prepared confidential memoranda authorizing torture, likely played a part in the Justices' reasoning.
(By this reasoning, a lot of bankers have simply decided to take long holidays since last September’s financial meltdown.)
Similar reasoning can be applied today not only to Iraq, but to Africa as well.
To be sure, their reasoning is basically correct.
According to standard economic reasoning, this is inefficient.
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