Thinking skills

For me the basis for many things must be reasoning, thinking skills. Lets think about this today. If we have a community, a partnership, we can only move forward if we can reason. There are valid and invalid conclusions based on logic. Read here. And here.

Remember logic is only a process. Whether the argument is sound or unsound is based on our underlying assumptions. But at least there is a process to the reasoning. We cannot progress in community or partnership if we cannot reason. Even if I base my arguments on unproven assumptions, we can still agree to disagree so long as we understand what the thinking process is. And eventually when the assumption is proven or disproved we can move on.

But if we cannot reason, we have no hope in hell of ever understanding one another. Everything becomes hit and miss. That is how important thinking skills are. And chess can give us that. Can give us the tools to progress.