{"product_id":"the-art-of-logical-thinking","title":"The Art of Logical Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Walker Atkinson, an attorney by trade, explains different kinds of logic and reasoning - deductive, inductive and hypothetical.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author begins by describing how the mind forms ideas and concepts, and then subjects these to the mental processes of higher reasoning. The memory stores a repository of terms, which are different from concepts in that they apply exclusively to the name of things. Through reasoning the mind can arrive at a judgment of a given thing or idea, and through simple distinction can reject what is false - for instance, the notion that a horse is a cow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving on from these simple examples, Atkinson describes how complex judgments and analyses are formed by the mind. Piecing together an accurate chain of events forms a kind of inductive reasoning - for example, if several people enters a store empty-handed, and later emerge with bags of fruit and vegetables, is it sensible to infer that it is a grocery store. Deriving conclusions from facts and events is forming a hypothesis; with the use of information, assertions can be made to arrive at a sensible conclusion - without personally entering said store, based on known facts it is credible to hypothesize that it sells groceries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pantianos Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50021920014586,"sku":"9781789872972","price":8.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_686789eb-e754-4802-b8cb-a0925d774cc0.jpg?v=1786139481","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-logical-thinking","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}