“Reasoning works in a way that is very similar to plausibility checking. **Plausibility checking uses our preexisting beliefs to evaluate what we’re told. Reasoning uses our preexisting inferential mechanisms instead**. The argument that you shouldn’t take the metro because the conductors are on strike works because you naturally draw inferences between “The conductors are on strike” and “The metro will be closed” to “We can’t take the metro.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[skepticism]], [[mental-models]], **Source** -- [[260102102051 - B - Not Born Yesterday]]