A Systems View Across Time and Space
Table 1 Logical thinking: main features. Multiple sources. Elaborated by Félix Socorro. May 2020
From: The disruptive triad and entrepreneurship: a theoretical model
Logical thinking | For Cohen (1977), cited by Menéndez (2009), "the logical processes of thought constitute symbolic activities of information processing, which are revealed in the resolution of problems (logical or of other types)". (p. 32) Logical thinking can be of three types: deductive, inductive and analogous | Deductive | Dávila Newman (2006), explains that this thought serves "to organize known facts and draw conclusions, which is achieved through a series of statements that are called syllogisms, they comprise three elements: a) the major premise, b) the minor premise and c) the conclusion" (p. 184) |
Inductive | According to Bacon, cited by Dávila Newman (2006), it is based on observations about particular phenomena of a class, and then, from them, inferences are made about the entire class. (p. 186) | ||
Analogous | According to Holyoak et al. (2001) cited by Benites and Robayo (2015). it is "nothing more than one of the mechanisms that are in our tendency to look for patterns of similarity between objects, situations, events and domains to be able to relate what is new with what is already we know". (p. 32) |