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Stephen Downes

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The most important claim in this article is right at the top, but the discussioning of reasoning as a whole is insightful and there's a Yakutsk of an example near the end. The top: "Reasoning can be an activity — something that you do either well or poorly in a given instance. Reasoning is also an artifact and more specifically a path: 'What's your reasoning here' asked in the sense of 'how did you get to this decision?'" We do one in our head and the other on paper. The end: "I have no idea how it actually made the call that this building is in Yakutsk. I know the reasons it tells me."

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