1. Reasoning Elementary critical thinking skills Reasoning: the ability to use the thinking capacity of the human mind

2. Reasoning Helps us to solve problems

3. Reasoning Allows us to make judgments

4. Reasoning Helps us to make decisions

5. Reasoning Helps us to learn from experience

6. Reasoning It can be done well or poorly.

7. Why study reasoning? It is part of our human potential; to be fully human we must choose to use it.

8. It will be useful in college and the “real” world. Why study reasoning?

9. It will facilitate discussion in class—we will have a common vocabulary for identifying mistakes. Why study reasoning?

10. It will protect us from charlatans—people who would distort the truth in an attempt to manipulate us for their gain. Why study reasoning?

11. Reasoning: caution Logic/Reasoning is not meant to be a weapon to diminish others. We employ it for the benefit of all in our quest for the truth.