Chapter 12 | Quotes From Pages 96-110 1.Inductive reasoning is much more difficult to do well than is deductive reasoning, since it is a more creative activity. 2.The next step is always to check your reasoning, and this is
done by questioning from the bottom up. 3.The trick is not to stop there, but to go further and make sure that the ideas in each grouping actually possess an intrinsic logic, and then explicitly to state the insight that that logical relationship implies. 4.In other words, the only justification for including a point in a document is that, together with others, it helps to explain or defend a higher point. 5.Think, for instance, of how much longer it would take someone to decide the actions needed to eliminate the problems implied in the first list below as opposed to the second. 6.It is interesting to note that whether you couple the ideas to form an inductive grouping or the beginning of a deductive line of reasoning, your mind automatically expects either a summarizing statement or a 'therefore' point.