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By this reasoning, a woman who finds herself pregnant at an inconvenient time could have an abortion, as long as she preserves a single cell from the fetus to ensure that its unique genetic potential is preserved.
It is not easy to attribute this rise to improved education, because the aspects of the tests on which scores have risen the most do not require a good vocabulary, or even mathematical ability, but instead assess powers of abstract reasoning.
Flynn himself thinks that the spread of the scientific mode of reasoning has played a role.
Pinker argues that enhanced powers of reasoning give us the ability to detach ourselves from our immediate experience and from our personal or parochial perspective, and frame our ideas in more abstract, universal terms.
It is just this kind of reasoning ability that improved during the twentieth century.
So there are grounds to believe that our improved reasoning abilities have enabled us to reduce the influence of those more impulsive elements of our nature that lead to violence.
The reasoning behind the tests seemed unimpeachable.
Curiously, markets have also accepted this flawed reasoning.
Planning a successful coup requires a significant degree of instrumental reasoning – that is, the tendency to use other people as tools to advance one’s own goals.
But, as plausible as this line of reasoning may sound, the historical evidence repeatedly refutes it.
The reasoning behind such episodes is based on a flawed analogy.
But there are several serious conceptual flaws in this reasoning.
When an insurgent organization loses control of territory or battlefield momentum, it resorts to terrorism, reasoning that attacks on softer civilian targets are cheaper, easier, and just as politically effective.
Many people remain in the growth-only camp only because of an error in deductive reasoning; unlike committed ideologues, they can be weaned from their position.
If we accepted this reasoning, we would have to accept a Soviet researcher’s assertion in the late 1980’s that we must rely on the state to create jobs, because 90% of past jobs were created by the state.
The reasoning is peculiar, and seems to revive a nineteenth-century critique, usually associated with Nietzsche, that Christianity (and Islam) produces an acquiescent or even subservient mentality, in contrast to the heroic virtues of classical antiquity or of warrior societies, such as the world of the Japanese samurai.
Even the US Supreme Court cited its reasoning when striking down anti-homosexuality laws in Texas in 2003.
General IQ tests measure such dimensions of intelligence as verbal comprehension and perceptual reasoning, but IQ scores predict only about 10-20% of variation in life success.
Their reasoning is that abandoning the system altogether would impose an unsustainable burden on megacities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
But a recent report, “The New Climate Economy: Better Growth, Better Climate” released by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, refutes this reasoning.
Following that reasoning, Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize came too early, because nothing has, in fact, happened yet.
And, increasingly, the reasoning behind such forecasts seems persuasive.
This is a method of economic reasoning that is calculated to appeal to those at the top of the income pyramid.
The problem with this reasoning is that financial crises tend to reveal fault lines that were not visible before.
Do we have to return to the abstract reasoning of Mandeville and some of his successors, including John Maynard Keynes, who thought that there were reasons to expect that austerity would produce depressions?
Indeed, we often forget that both Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer’s reasoning are very similar.
The reasoning is simple and logical: if someone fraudulently borrows money in my name, I am not expected to pay it back, and neither should a country’s population when an unrepresentative leader borrows in their name and to their detriment.
This can be explained largely by the growing dissonance between the reasoning for intervention – namely, the undeniable underperformance of post-colonial states – and the remedies offered.
But we have learned time and again that stock markets are driven more by psychology than by reasoning about fundamentals.
This is a more powerful indictment of the reasoning behind recent attempts to justify spending cuts during a recession than is a spreadsheet error or a flippant remark about Keynes’s sexuality.
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