At first I didn't really understand the point of the reading. I knew what facts, reasoning, implications, and assumptions were. As I read I realized that I didn't really know everything I thought I did. I didn't realize how much your own opinion of your evidence was crucial to coming up with a good conclusion. If you do not believe that what you say is definitely true, how will other people believe it without question? I never really thought about how I jump to conclusions so easily. When people dress up, I believe they are doing something out of the ordinary, like going out. I always assume, but if I don't ask, I never really know the true reason. Normal things such as sarcasm never have phased me. I am used to it and know when something says something sarcastically, they imply the opposite. But do I know if they're joking? Or if they are serious. You never really know with sarcasm. I thought the end was interesting about the schooling. Everyone usually assumes that schooling is helping us to become successful people, I never thought about it as a sort of weed out for people that aren't middle class or above. The reading was straight forward for the most part, but it seemed to me to be trying to confuse the reader. I couldn't figure out if it was telling us how to reason better, or telling us how stupid reasoning was. Overall, I liked the reading, it was short and to the point and gave me something to think about after I was finished reading.