Reconstructing another s view is a process of appropriation of meaning in which you make the view your own. Some strengths in picturing thought as information processing include focusing your attention to ask questions about the product. This way also allows us to distinguish between information as content and structure of thought. The weaknesses include confining your impression of critical thinking to a particular process. People don t invite critical appraisal of their views because they take it as criticism instead of a way to make oneself better.
Logic is the study of patterns and systems of rational thought.
Jane is going swimming at the lake. It must be warm then. Logicians who want to arrive at truths about the world need to know how language works, since it is words, which fill the patterns. They also need to correctly identify the problems creatively and insightfully, this makes it very easy for a logician to fail at finding important truths. You would use a justificatory argument is you argument was going to show that it is reasonable to believe some statement.