From the course: Build Your Logical Thinking Skills
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Separate the reasons from the claim
From the course: Build Your Logical Thinking Skills
Separate the reasons from the claim
- As you'll recall a claim is a conclusion or a premise. It feels definitive. In logical reasoning, a claim is distinct from the reasons for that claim. In the workplace, it's important to identify the reasons for a claim and then to question those reasons because then we can make a decision as to whether the claim itself is something that makes sense for ourselves and for our colleagues. How do you identify a claim and distinguish it from the reasons for that claim? Well, there are buzzwords that we can pay attention to. Things like because of, as a result of, given, therefore. This is a cue that we're shifting from the claim to the reasons for the claim. And as we'll see, it's probing those reasons, it's unpacking those reasons, and putting them back together again. That is the critical distinction between logical decision-making and reactive decision-making and can make all the difference between a good decision…
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