Practical reasoning and inference

Practical reasoning is reasoning by means of which you arrive at a new intention. Reasoning in general is an activity through which you arrive at a new attitude by means of a rule-governed operation on the contents of your exiting attitudes. Reasoning is correct if it is governed by a correct rule, and a rule is correct if it corresponds to a basing permission of rationality. Rationality permits you to have certain attitudes based on others; for instance it permits you to believe _q_ on the basis of believing _p_ and believing that if _p_ then _q_—this is an example of a basing permission. Although reasoning is made correct by a permission of rationality rather than a requirement of rationality, it often brings you to satisfy a requirement of rationality.