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Thinking Styles

There are various types of thinking styles that exist within the world to help people make sense of why people make the decisions that they do in different situations. Three main types of thinking styles are logical thinking, scientific thinking, and persuasive thinking. All three of these thinking styles have differences, similarities, weaknesses, and strengths, that must be compared and contrasted to understand the affect that they have on critical thinking and in the decision making process. Every person has a primary style of thinking that is used most to help in his or her decisions.
Logical thinking is the process of reasoning one's thoughts whether correct or incorrect which leads to critical thinking. The two main steps that are used in logical thinking are deductive logic through syllogisms and inductive logic. Deductive logic or thinking consists of two premises or more that leads to a factual conclusion which is hidden within the premises. The conclusion must logically follow the premises in such a way that if the premises are true then the conclusion is true. Premises are declarations that supply the basis of a conclusion. The most basic form of deductive thinking is the syllogism. A syllogism is a form of reasoning which contains two premises and one conclusion; there are three types of syllogisms, categorical, the hypothetical, and the disjunctive. One example of a syllogism in the workplace is: people who receive more training or more qualified workers, some employees do not receive as much training; therefore, employees that do not receive as much training are not qualified works. Next, inductive logic means that no matter how true or accurate the premises may be the conclusion is uncertain. Evidence and observations accumulated for the premises may form a very probably or likely conclusion however, the conclusion is still uncertain. One example of inductive thinking is thousands of jobs are now currently being outsourced from the U.S. to other...