ABSTRACT
The first requirement for reasoning well is desiring to do so. Reasoning can be hard work. It is much easier to "play hunches" and to "follow one's intuitions" than to think through the consequences of various actions we might be considering. It is easier to assume that people who disagree with us on controversial issues are wrong, than to attempt to see things from their points of view. It takes less energy to guess at the answer to a complicated inferential problem than to work out the implications of the information in hand.
