Do you start or end your thinking process with the conclusion?

Question

I mean.... when you consider something... do you start with a decision and then seek to justify it.... or do you start with the consideration process and arrive at a conclusion?
... Or like some smartarse mathematicians... do you start with a conclusion and then try to prove the inverse in order to demonstrate that you hit paradox?


Not that I'm casting stones or anything...
(Nor indeed that I honestly care, since I already know what the folks here do, dependant on their system of belief)....

Answer 1

I usually don't get to the conclusion at all before someone behind me forces me to get off the damned computer and go outside to forage.

Responsibilities to the sett come first.
Arguing with stubborn humans comes second.

Answer 2

I start with the consideration process and then come to a conclusion.

Now my wife on the other hand, Starts the process with a conclusion and then justifys her conclusion with a very unique thinking process. Namely, she is right, why argue.

If a man says something in a forest and no woman is near by to hear him, is he still wrong?

Answer 3

that is a beautiful question!