ABSTRACT
There is a long history of thinking about thinking. The thought processes have been the object of speculation since before the time of Aristotle. For the most part, such reflection has been the province of philosophers, but in recent times, thinking has become a field of study for psychologists and linguists as well. As might be expected, there are some heated debates about what takes place when a person "thinks." In fact, it is even difficult to define what is meant by thinking. Thinking has often been identified with reasoning and reasoning with logic. The formal methods of reasoning have been broken into two major categories, inductive and deductive logic. Inductive logic involves the development of general laws or principles from a series of concrete instances or examples. Inquiry, as a teaching strategy, is unsurpassed if the goal is to teach people "to think." There is no substitute for the hard work involved in solving a problem.
