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Reasoning cannot depend on “a search”. It is based on memory, on knowledge (not on its accessibility).

• lordnacho 4y ago
  False. You can search for the arguments in favor of evolution, or some explanation for the fall of Rome, or why you should prefer composition over inheritance. You just have to remember that they're things people have thought about and roughly the outline. Doing a search will let you fill out the skeleton. Previously if you were to opine on those subjects you would either need the information to hand, or look it up in one of a few books you happened to have near you. The search will in all likelihood lead to better reasoning than if you did not have the internet to hand, assuming you know how to critique sources. For instance you might have forgotten some supporting evidence. This is a big assumption but it's pretty much what people should be practicing during education. The thing you really need to practice in the modern world is judgement. You go online, read some sources, and now you have the problem of deciding which sources are worth listening to.