Step One: The Occurrence of a Perplexity

To perplex is to be unable to grasp something clearly or to think logically and decisively about something.

Step Two: Clarification of The Perplexity

To clarify is to be free of confusion and to make understandable.

Step Three: The Appearance of Different Solutions, or Working Hypotheses of The Perplexity

To hypothesize is to form a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences.

Step Four: Deducing Implications of the Suggested Hypothesis

A deduction is the deriving of a conclusion by reasoning, specifically of an inference in which the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises.

Step Five: Verification of The Chosen Solution

Some action or observation, engaged in for the purpose of determining which if any, of the suggestions as developed, offers an adequate solution of the perplexity.

Step Six: A Reiteration of The Preceding Thinking

Uncover any inadequacies that might be corrected.

Sources: Right Thinking, A Study of Its Principles And Methods. E.A. Burtt, Ph.D. (1928, 1931, 1946), whose analysis is derived from How We Think, by John Dewey, Ph.D. (1910).