CR- Thursdays With Ron - 2 methods of reasoning (Mar 4, 2011

[jayanth.b.kashyap]

Hi Ron,

Thank you for all the wonderful study hall sessions! This is with respect to the study hall on March 3, 2011 (Strengthen, Weaken and Evaluate)

You said that Intuitive interpretation applies to S/W questions and Formal interpretation applies to Conclusion questions. And you used the following statement to illustrate.

"A patient was brought to an emergency room with injuries consistent with having been hit by a car"

And this was your interpretation for the two methods of reasoning.

Inituitive: "The patient WAS HIT by a car"

Formal: "Well, what other sort of things may have produced such injuries. I don't really know for sure that the patient was hit by a car"

My Question: Don't Must Be True or Draw the Conclusion questions not allow out of scope reasoning? Shouldn't the intuitive interpretation be the reasoning for this the formal interpretation and vice versa?

Or maybe i misunderstood what you were trying to explain.

[tim]

how does a ban on out-of-scope answers preclude formal reasoning?