Informal Reasoning

Informal reasoning refers to the use of logical thought, and the principles of logic, outside of a formal setting. Basically, informal logic uses the application of everyday knowledge, education and thinking skills to analyze and evaluate information. In our modern world we are barraged with information constantly through radio, TV, internet, etc. and we need to be able to use some type of criteria to evaluate the information we are given in order to make decisions about it.

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