Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

Inductive Reasoning is the reasoning that a statement is true due to specific cases and reasons to be true. One way to use inductive reasoning is to create a conclusion from some-sort of reasoning. A term to know when talking about inductive reasoning is a Conjecture. A conjecture is when a statement is belived to possibly be true due to it relying on inductive reasoning.
  •       An example of an Inductive Reasoning problem is...

Deductive Reasoning is when logic is used to make conclusions. This is when a proof comes in to describe and show how to prove statements. The are two laws that have to do with deductive reasoning. They are: Law of Detachment, and Law of Syllogism.


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