reasoning skills
Mental problem-solving capacities
Reasoning skills are the mental abilities used to analyze information, draw conclusions, and solve problems logically.
The term appears frequently in educational and professional contexts: The test measures verbal and quantitative reasoning skills.
Someone with strong reasoning skills can evaluate evidence, identify patterns, and construct coherent arguments.
- deductionConclusion from premises
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
- drawing conclusionsForming judgments from evidence
- argumentationSystematic reasoning process
- syllogismFormal deductive argument structure
pattern recognition · connect the dots · abstraction · categorization · decision-making · evaluation · heuristics · validity · cognitive flexibility · critical thinking · devil's advocate · intellectual humility · mental math · fallacy · metacognition · analogies · problem-solving · skepticism
- intellectintelligence, intellect, brainpower, mind, cognition
- education theorycurriculum, child development, moral education, liberal education, educational reform
- brain gamesbrainteasers, brain teasers, logic puzzles, puzzles, crossword puzzles
- Thinking phrasesI think, I believe, in my opinion, I wonder, I suppose
- logicpremise, premises, conclusion, conclusions, inference
- philosophyethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology
reasoning skillsmemorization
Committing information to recall
rote learning · recitation · regurgitation · information storage · memory
reasoning skillsirrationality
Absence of logic
illogic · unreason · gut feeling · intuition · emotional reaction
reasoning skillsgullibility
Ease of being deceived
credulity · blind obedience · mindlessness · thoughtlessness · dogmatism