prompt: "Create a taxonomy of categories of reasoning, including an explanatory description, with examples of each. If someone were to learn about reasoning from first principles today, they would begin by understanding the modes or types of reasoning. They would then review a wide range of examples for each."
completion:
The best place to begin is with how a conclusion is supported. Deduction, induction, abduction, and analogy provide the most useful initial distinctions. But they are not the same kind of category as “causal reasoning,” “ethical reasoning,” or “systems thinking.” Those describe what we are reasoning about, what we are trying to accomplish, or how we organize the problem. A single argument can belong to several categories at once. ([Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy][1])
For learning purposes, I recommend a layered taxonomy of 20 reasoning families:
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