I mean a liberal arts education is sometimes said to teach how to think. There are many types of thinking and strategies for them. inductive reasoning, deductiver reasoning, and throwing stuff at the wall which is basically guessing. Really guessing has to sorta be proven out by something like inductive reasoning (testings like the scientific method) whereas deductive tries to take whats already known and come up with a better guess which you may feel is strong enough to go with or you can treat like a guess and test it out. I mean at some point if you utilize the idea it will get tested out based on working or not.