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The most learnable parts of reasoning well are rationality and analogical competencies.

Rationality is the application of methods, which can be learned.

Analogical competencies is the application of reduced-dimensionality models that reveal. It also can be learned.

There is no limit of analogical competency. To actually have an analogy do deep work, the analogy needs a non-discursive referent.

For example, one could draw analogies from art, math (as a field of beautiful structures, not as methods), literature. But each of those analogical resources requires competency in those domains.

Someone's reasoning palette is strongly influenced by the analogical resources they have.

Excellent reasoning often combines strong rationality with a solid analogical palette. This also, however, means that strong reasoning has an aesthetic.

Rationality alone converges on one point; each analogical palette gives it a different place to converge to.